On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 8:55 PM, Alex Smith<ais...@bham.ac.uk> wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-06-29 at 12:42 -0700, Kerim Aydin wrote:
>> On Mon, 29 Jun 2009, C-walker wrote:
>> > I change my name to "2.71828183..." or "e" for short.
>>
>> I'll accept 2.71828..., but don't you think picking the third-person
>> singular pronoun 'e' might have some *slight* chance of being "a name
>> that has generally been used to refer to another entity within the
>> past three months"?
>
> Could be a potential wording scam here, given there's no entity in
> particular that 'e' generally refers to in Agora, but instead, it's used
> to refer to lots of different entities.
>
> (There was a CFJ a while ago (CFJ 2319) asking whether people saying 'e'
> really meant the number: it was ruled that it referred to the number by
> default, but only when this was reasonable, and it wasn't reasonable
> anywhere in the rules. I wonder if C-walker's name change makes it
> reasonable?)
First ominous instance of e in the ruleset:
Every person has the right to cause formal reconsideration
of any judicial determination that e should be punished.
More fun:
An eligible voter on a particular Agoran decision submits a
ballot to the vote collector by publishing a valid notice
indicating which one of the available options e selects.
Also gains of most ribbons and some Notes would go to me.
--
C-walker
