Seeing what's happened to B Nomic recently (apparently almost
everything since last December has been illegal due to
specifying SHALL rather than SHALL and CAN), I think it's
probably a good idea to have some way to fix Agora if things
go really bad. So this is an attempt to write a rule which can,
by itself and without help from other rules, get the game out
of just about any mess.
This probably needs some work. (Incidentally, 'four-fifths'
because that's what would be needed for an AI of 4 under the
current rules, making Emergency Refreshes harder to pass than
Democratic Proposals).
Proto-proposal (AI=3, II=3):
{{{{
Create a power-3.1 rule with the following text:
{{{
The set of Definite Players is {ais523, avpx, BobTHJ, cdm014,
comex, doopy, ehird, Eris, Iammars, Ivan Hope, Jeremy, Murphy,
Offhanded, OscarMeyr, Pavitra, pikhq, Quazie, root,
Schrodinger's Cat, woggle, Wooble, Zefram}.
A Definite Message is a message sent to all Definite Players,
or to a mailing list which all Definite Players are likely to be
subscribed to, by a Definite Player.
This rule can be amended to change the set of Definite Players
to the set of current first-class players, as long as a Definite
Player declared eir intention to do so in an Definite Message
between four and fourteen days before the amendment happened, by
stating that this action is being taken in a Definite Message,
along with the new set of Definite Players.
An Emergency Refresh is a set of changes to the rules and/or
gamestate, clearly labeled as an Emergency Refresh, written in
a Definite Message sent within the last fourteen days.
Any Definite Player can Accept an Emergency Refresh, by stating
that e Accepts it in a Definite Message.
When an Emergency Refresh has been Accepted by at least four-
fifths of the Definite Players, the rules and/or gamestate
change as specified in the Emergency Refresh, regardless of
what any other rule may state.
Apart from the phrase "first-class players", all words in this
rule have their normal English meaning except as defined in this
rule, and their meanings cannot be overriden by any other entity.
}}}
}}}}
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ais523
