On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 3:53 PM, Alexander Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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)
Well, that was just my opinion and a Consultation stating that "Obligated to" means "CAN and SHALL" would fix the problem, most likely. In any case, Agora's protected from that sort of thing by: a) it being IMPOSSIBLE to make any change that prevents the passage of proposals in 4 weeks; if Agora had a Clock and it couldn't be started, the change that led to it being impossible to start it could not happen. b) ratification of lots of the gamestate, so a 6+ month rollback wouldn't happen, and c) more players who would complain loudly if someone tried to change a rule giving an officer some absolutely essential power to a mere "obligation" that they exercise that power. Of course, the problem in B is compounded by the unfortunately-timed (and/or extremely suspicious) crash of the wiki's database server, which isn't the sort of thing that would hurt Agora since all the reports are in everyone's email and the rest of the computing infrastructure is both decentralized and mostly a convenience for the officers using it.
