On 2/2/26 14:17, Janet Cobb via agora-official wrote: > Well, since I was kindly reminded by Trigon that it's Read the Ruleset > Week (thank you), here's a very hastily put together unofficial contest: > > Contestants should submit to the Rulekeepor, privately or publicly, the > most interesting or fun Rules loophole or unexpected Rules interaction. > Submissions are due by the end of the Agoran week following Read the > Ruleset Week. (If I was late in remembering to set this up, I'll give > y'all some extra time to submit as well.) I will petition the Herald to > please award a unique patent title to the winner. > > Details: > > * Limit two submissions per person. > * If it's a scam, you don't necessarily have to try to attempt to pull > off the scam to enter. But feel free to! If you do try it as a scam, > the results must clean up after themselves and "be nice", or the > submission will be disqualified. > * Loopholes that require rules violations to work are disqualified. > * If the consensus is that the loophole is a bug, you must propose a fix. > * Bonus points for the longer the loophole has sat in the rules > unnoticed, whether it's obvious once pointed out, and other aspects > of the whole thing (i.e. relying on really iffy twisting of > definitions or rules readings is a minus). > * The final decision is the Rulekeepor's (though a patent title award > would require both the Herald and 2 Agoran consent), but I'll try to > find consensus (likely using a mock IRV Agoran decision if there are > multiple serious candidates). > * Private submissions will be published (along with the name of the > submitter) at the end of the submission period. (That is, private > submissions are intended for things which anybody could exploit > immediately; they are not intended for trying to stay anonymous > forever.) > * For the next 30 days, I pledge to not attempt to exploit any private > submission, or any scam or loophole derived from any private > submission, until the end of the Agoran day following the day in > which the solution is made public. > > > These rules are heavily derived from G.'s rules for the 2019 contest [0]. > > [0] > https://mailman.agoranomic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/private/agora-official/2019-February/012766.html >
Just reminding people about this. Time is running out! -- Janet Cobb Assessor, Rulekeepor
