On Sat, 2026-05-09 at 10:45 -0400, Gregory Hayes via agora-business wrote: > I cause myself to score 1111222233334444555566667777888899990000. > (that's four of each digit).
How? Even if this action is unregulated, the rules don't provide "by announcement" as a method of doing it. Our public announcements on the mailing lists only do anything when the rules say they do. Normally this is a consequence of the penultimate paragraph of rule 478 (which states that if a rule defines that something can be done by announcement, a correctly-worded message to a public list is capable of doing it). If there isn't a rule providing that you can do something by announcement, stating that you are doing it doesn't trigger anything in the rules and thus doesn't cause it to happen. (There are a few other reasons this fails, e.g. rule 2713 only triggers on numbers that are scored "as described in this rule". But the "the rules don't provide a mechanism for this" is the interesting reason why it doesn't work.) (And to the long-time Agorans here, I give the obligatory YAEOTISIDTIDFTHPAFALT.) -- ais523
