comex wrote: > On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 5:17 PM, Ed Murphy<emurph...@socal.rr.com> wrote: >> �1) We somehow forgot about the rising support requirement to publish >> � � � multiple NoVs in the same week. > > Didn't forget. The extra NoVs were, IIRC, ILLEGAL but VALID (because > the Rule used MAY, which is nearly always a mistake)
No, it's a deliberate design decision: pragmatism over platonism. The possibility of abuse, which can be dealt with by stern punishment, is, according to the currently prevalent Agoran political climate, far preferable to the possibility of recordkeeping errors, which require either Massive Gamestate Recalculation or most of the playerbase wilfully ignoring the rules. For an idea of how badly platonism isn't fail-safe, look up the Annabel Crisis, due to which ratification was invented.
