Roger Hicks wrote: > I think this is especially the case when scamming a power granted to > you as a result of an office you hold. For the good of the game > Officers should be overly cautious in exercising any powers granted to > them for their office as these powers are typically defined to ensure > a properly functioning game.
I generally agree. I prefer scams that leave an unambiguous game state or at least leave the game state in a manner such that ambiguity affects. I do my very best to ensure a properly functioning game. > I play a No Confidence card to initiate an election for the office of > Grand Poobah. > > I nominate myself for Grand Poobah (though don't let that keep anyone > else from running for the job. I'll decline if there are other > interested parties). I submit that people should consider my past performance of duties in all offices, and not just the scam, when chosing to vote in this and other ongoing elections for my offices. There is abusable power in the Grand Poobah office, but it is clearly and definitively restricted in the rules to appropriate uses, as I have discovered. I fully intend not to abuse power in any illegal manner; if a legal manner exists, I may abuse it, but that is no different from what I would do if I did not hold the office, and it is something to be generally expected of Nomic players in general. Office scams have a history of tolerance in Agora - see, for instance, Murphy's Solitude scam. Also, my reports are easier to read than BobTHJ's. -coppro
