Zefram wrote:
Kerim Aydin wrote:
When Agoran Rules allow an action to be conducted "by announcement",
the specific announcement is the action in question, giving the
appearance that we support ISIDTID. In reality, we are recognizing
the actual act of posting a message as the action.
Yes. I'm surprised that anyone ever claimed ISIDTID as a general
principle. The rules are very clear that certain specific actions are
performed by means of an announcement that they are being performed,
and nowhere do they claim that actions can in general be performed in
that way.
Rule 478 has only defined "by announcement" since February 2003, when
it was quietly introduced as a side effect of Proposal 4456 (which
introduced Switches for the first time, and defined one for fora).
Even with that definition in place, it's easy to argue that announcing
"I do X 10,000 times" /is/ effectively making 10,000 announcements,
hence that Rule 478 fully backs it up. Goethe has now explicitly stated
the intuitive belief that neither "it never works" nor "it always works"
satisfies the best-interests-of-the-game standard in all cases.
