On Sunday 21 October 2007 10:28:35 Zefram wrote:
> I still don't like retroactivity.
It seems to me that the retroactivity would be useful *if* someone
genuinely screws up. . .
> CFJ 1711 was about correcting a mandatory publication; in that case
> the initial incorrect posting inherently did not achieve the game
> action that it purported to.
I think that the correction to the publication itself should have been
what constituted that game action, not the initial posting. . .
> What we want to do there is to make another, similar, attempt to
> make the proper action. What you've protoed lets someone post "I
> deregister" and then later say "actually I've changed my mind".
It may be possible to discourage this by making a person lose VCs or
something. . . But, yeah, this is a bit of an issue with this proto.
Any suggestions, other than "this is a horrible proto"? :p
>
> -zefram
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