Zefram wrote:
I hereby submit the following proposal, titled "truthfulness":
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Retitle rule 2149 to "Truthfulness", and amend it to read
A person SHALL NOT make a false statement in any public message
while knowing that the statement is false or being reckless as
to its veracity. Merely quoting a false statement does not
constitute making it for the purposes of this rule. Any
disclaimer, conditional clause, or other qualifier attached to a
statement constitutes part of the statement for the purposes of
this rule; the truth or falsity of the whole is what is
significant.
I still think "reckless as to its veracity" is unclear. Suggested
revision of the first sentence:
A person SHALL NOT make a public statement unless e believes e
is telling the truth.
This covers cases where a player intends to make one statement, but
(due to a typo) makes a different statement about which e held no
conscious belief at the time of publication.
