Ed Murphy wrote:
Proto-proto: Re-factor each type of Agoran decision into its own rule;
Something I've been meaning to do, once we stop fiddling with those
rules in other ways.
-zefram
On Wednesday 01 August 2007, Ed Murphy wrote
Neither CAN nor MAY is explicitly defined by Rule 2152, so ordinary
language applies. Game custom for both is (not CANNOT) and (not
MAY NOT).
This is severely broken. Certainly MAY/CAN are not capitalized merely for
emphasis.
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proto-proposal: clarify Mother, May I?
AI: 2
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Amend rule 2152 to read
The following terms are defined for the discussion of the status
of events. These terms are spelled in all capitals. Where
these words are used in lowercase these definitions do not
necessarily
On Thursday 02 August 2007, Zefram wrote:
proto-proposal: clarify Mother, May I?
AI: 2
This does not fix CAN-allowing-action vs. MAY-allowing-action.
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On 8/2/07, Zefram [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Geoffrey Spear wrote:
the rule requires the statement
to be inquired into to be included and I don't think it's sufficient
that someone could take the
initiator's announcement and formulate a statement that maybe e
comex wrote:
This does not fix CAN-allowing-action vs. MAY-allowing-action.
Both terms are perfectly well defined. CAN is used in several places
to make something possible where it would otherwise be impossible.
The sole use of MAY has a sensible meaning, of giving permission,
but appears to be
On 8/2/07, Zefram [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Geoffrey Spear wrote:
The phase whether CotC Zefram violated
Rule 1871 can only be read to mean that what is to be determined is
CotC Zefram's culpability for an alleged breach of the rules,
I strongly disagree with this
Geoffrey Spear wrote:
the rule requires the statement
to be inquired into to be included and I don't think it's sufficient
that someone could take the
initiator's announcement and formulate a statement that maybe e wanted
evaluated from it.
That's a better
On Thursday 02 August 2007, Zefram wrote:
comex wrote:
This does not fix CAN-allowing-action vs. MAY-allowing-action.
Both terms are perfectly well defined. CAN is used in several places
to make something possible where it would otherwise be impossible.
The sole use of MAY has a sensible
comex wrote:
What if the ordinary language bit was a bit less clear and said:
Then the rule would be pretty unclear.
Rule 1607 is not the only relevant rule. Consider, for example, rule 2161.
CAN the player assign ID numbers?
R2161 doesn't explicitly address the capacity to assign ID
On 8/2/07, Zefram [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Proposal 5112 (Democratic, AI=2, Interested) by Murphy
Change the title of Rule 2148 to The Ambassador, and amend it by
replacing Ambassador's report with Ambassador's monthly report.
Amendment fails, because the text to replace doesn't exist in the
proto-proposal: pragmatify officeholding
AI: 2
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Amend rule 2154 by replacing the first paragraph with
Any player CAN make an active player (hereafter the nominee) the
holder of an office, thus removing any previous holder from the
office, with Agoran Consent, provided that
On 8/2/07, Zefram [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
comex wrote:
What if the ordinary language bit was a bit less clear and said:
Then the rule would be pretty unclear.
Rule 1607 is not the only relevant rule. Consider, for example, rule 2161.
CAN the player assign ID numbers?
R2161 doesn't
comex wrote:
On Wednesday 01 August 2007, Ed Murphy wrote
Neither CAN nor MAY is explicitly defined by Rule 2152, so ordinary
language applies. Game custom for both is (not CANNOT) and (not
MAY NOT).
This is severely broken. Certainly MAY/CAN are not capitalized merely for
emphasis.
Zefram wrote:
proto-proposal: clarify Mother, May I?
* x CAN y: it is POSSIBLE for x to y.
* x CANNOT y: it is IMPOSSIBLE for x to y.
This eliminates x CAN y only if z as a synonym for
x CANNOT y if not z. Similarly for the other cases.
In particular, we might want to amend
comex wrote:
On Friday 27 July 2007, Antonio Dolcetta wrote:
I was wandering if anyone is interested in creating a faction.
Since the faction rules have been introduced no one has made one, Is
there any interest at all in playing factions out ?
I cause Agora to join B Nomic per rule 5-2.
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