Ian Kelly wrote: > Agora hereby submits to Agora as its benevolent protector.
I don't think that's enough to make Agora qualify to be a protectorate: it also needs a mechanism for Agora to change Agora's rules arbitrarily, which the ordinary proposal process probably doesn't count for. It would also be a really bad idea to make Agora a protectorate, because of some dodgy wording in rule 2147. Applying R2147 to Agora would appear to make all proposals with AI < 2 ineffective, because the exception for normal processes of the protectorate isn't broad enough. (In Agora's normal processes, the ruleset is changed by proposals, not by players.) Let's refine the protectorate mechanism, and get some experience in applying it, before we use it reflexively. -zefram
