comex wrote:
> In B Nomic, a scam has attempted to forcibly pass a Refresh Proposal
> including the following:
> {
> Create a new Essential rule titled "The Mao Protectorate" with the
> text { There exists an External Force known as the Secret Ruleset. A
> Player may take any game action authorized by the Secret Ruleset. The
> External Force at email address bitty.ba...@gmail.com is the
> definitive interpreter of the Secret Ruleset, and will reveal whether
> actions claiming the authority of the Secret Ruleset work or not on
> request. This rule takes precedence over all other rules, and may not
> be modified except per the Secret Ruleset. [[The Secret Ruleset is
> intended to add some fun to the game in a way that could only be added
> by a dictatorship; players may be able to deduce some of its contents
> by observing which actions are made under it.]] }
> }
>
> Though this is not B Nomic, the proposed rule rails against our
> principle, established even in the initial Suber rules ("they shall
> guide play in the form in which they were voted on") that players of a
> nomic should know what the rules of that nomic are. I would go so far
> as to say that they have the right, if not explicitly forfeited, of
> knowledge of the rules. Sure, I once threw around the idea of a
> contest with secret rules, and I'm sure there have been nomics with
> secret rules, but any participant in any of those has joined it in
> full knowledge that it is a game with secret rules. B, however, has
> been co-opted into becoming such a game.
>
> In protest of this, I submit the following token Proposal (AI=1.7),
> titled "Moment of Silence":
> {
> Award each of {j, Murphy, ais523, 0x44, Billy Pilgrim} one Rest.
> }
I wasn't in on that part, Warrigal was.
