On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 12:32 AM, Kerim Aydin<ke...@u.washington.edu> wrote: > > [Since it seems to be an evening for them, the following, I admit, is > an Outright Scam; by my taxonomy definitely against the intent of the > rule in question]. > > I initiate an Agoran decision to decide the Flag of Agora. The eligible > voters are the active first-class players at the time the decision is > initiated (now), the valid options are the Flag Candidates at the time the > decision was initiated, and the vote collector is the Herald. > > The only valid option is currently GOETHE'S FLAG CANDIDATE, below (note > with one option, quorum does not apply): > >> -------------------------------------------------------------------- >> G. CAN cause this Rule to make arbitrary rule changes by >> announcement. Viva la fuente! >> -------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > [end of election initiation announcement] > > > CFJ: Goethe has initiated an Agoran Decision to decide the Flag of Agora, > with exactly one valid option. > > Caller's Arguments: > > The Rule governing the creation of Flag Candidates Reads in part: > Within one week after the enactment of this rule, each active > first-class player may create exactly one Flag Candidate without three > objections. > > An important component in this is the use of "may". Creating documents of > certain types is described in the CAN/CANNOT phraseology in R2125(c), but > in this case creating a flag candidate is governed by a "may". Therefore, > by R101(i) it was POSSIBLE to create a flag candidate in an unregulated > way if a mechanism exists, and a mechanism does in fact exist: the natural > way any document is made: by publishing/submitting it clearly labeled as > such a document.
In my opinion, "may" clearly means CAN in this context. Rule 2125 says The rules explicitly state that it CAN be performed not The rules explicitly state that it "CAN be performed" The requirement is that the rules explicitly allow the action under certain conditions (using the MMI "CAN" to avoid ambiguity about what R2125 is referring to), not that they use certain wording. -- -c.
