On Sun, 2025-03-02 at 09:44 +1100, Matt Smyth via agora-business wrote: > I intend, without n objections, where n is the number of active registered > players, to declare myself a winner of Agora. > > I intend, without n objections, where n is the number of active registered > players, to add juniper to the list of winners of Agora. > > This probably won't work, but I'd like to see what stops this from > occurring.
I object (just because I think it would be fun if we somehow got all the active players except you, plus an inactive player, to object). The main reason that this sort of thing doesn't work is that sending messages to the public forum only does anything if the rules say it does; the reason that, say, posting that you assign a judgement to a CFJ actually does assign the judgement is that there's a rule saying that it does (in this case, the first sentence of rule 591 combined with the penultimate paragraph of rule 478). Sending a message that doesn't trigger a rule to react to it is just sending a message – it doesn't actually *do* anything. This case is slightly more complicated because you're doing it as a tabled action, but the last paragraph of rule 2124 works by implying text into the rule defining it as a tabled action. If there's no such rule, the paragraph doesn't define any consequence of posting a message saying that you're taking it. You might find it interesting to search the list archives for the acronym "ISIDTID" (which stands for "I say I do, therefore I do") – this sort of thing has historically been attempted at Agora often enough that we coined a word for describing the situation. -- ais523
