On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 12:07 AM, Ed Murphy <emurph...@socal.rr.com> wrote: >> I should look this up, but note that we have in the past accepted >> dictatorship rules of the form "[player name] CAN do whatever by >> announcement" without any special explicitness, and currently have a >> (non-scam) rule that mentions Taral in the same way. Where is the >> dividing line between those and the Robot rule-to-be? > > The intent of those references was always clear and unambiguous, > whereas the general public was misled regarding the intent of the > Robot reference until coppro attempted to change eir nickname.
I don't see what that matters from the Rules' perspective. The reference is evaluated at the time the rule is enacted.