On Sat, 20 Sep 2008, comex wrote: > Really, the Agoran power system is completely broken. Any high-power > Rule that uses a term defined in a low-power Rule is potentially a > conduit for a "power escalation" by a scamster, and often is. Not > only do high-power Rules do often use such definitions without regard, > but we have substantial precedent for previously ordinary-language > terms defined in a lower-Power rule to affect a higher-Power one-- > such as the enactment of R2150 (Personhood), or MMI, which was > originally Power=1! It can be argued quite reasonably from precedent > that a Power=1 rule could define "Look on our works, ye Marvy" as > "comex CAN modify the gamestate by announcement".
Nice example, since the creation of the fountain was due to such a scam. It's called a "ladder scam". This was the subject of my thesis, and I believe Andre's as well. IIRC I think I recommended at the time a tweak to R754 but I think we just accepted it as part of the game at the time. -Goethe
