On Tue, 2026-04-21 at 16:37 -0400, Gregory Hayes via agora-business wrote: > I have to admit I'm kind of shocked that people just voted in a rule > that effectively says "spend 25 spendies to do whatever you want". > Maybe people are just in a very generous mood right now. I intend to > Declare Apathy without objection, specifying myself.
I object to the above-quoted intent. I am also pretty shocked that players just voted it through; as some other players suspected, I was planning a scam to try to cause the proposal to become adopted despite not having enough votes. But if it passes naturally, I'll take that! (The forcethrough scam had a lot of moving parts and it was likely that at least one of them would break even though all of them seemed individually likely to work, so having the proposal pass using unforced votes somewhat increases the odds of the scam working.) That said, that means there's still potentially a proposal forcethrough scam in the ruleset! I might try deploying it some time later on, because it would be a shame to let it go to waste. > I assume that the gist of the plan is to have Janet carry out all of > these rule changes in the same message in which e resolves the > proposal's adoption. If so, I don't see any particular issues except > for the part where Dictatorship A and B somehow gain Power 3, it's > not clear from your notifications how that's supposed to happen. > Probably intentionally, but maybe that's the stumbling block that > will make the scam fail, I don't know. They don't, they will have power 2 (the rule does try to create them at power 3 but rule 105 will reduce the power of the created rule to 2). -- ais523
