G. wrote:
Trombones Blob, elJefe, General Chaos, Steve
Not in the FLR and before my memory. Murphy?
*sorta remembers, looks up details*
In 1998, Swann and The Threat (a Group with the above-listed members,
created and named because Swann or someone identified them as the major
threats to eir ability to win) more or less simultaneously noticed that
an instrument with Power X could give another instrument Power Y>X, and
colluded to submit Proposal 3710 ("The Great Officer's Veto Scam") which
defined Threat Trombones (I think Swann was originally going to call
them Trumpets).
Promotor Blob accidentally removed a ">" in the distribution message,
so CFJs 1089-90 found that the proposal hadn't been distributed (though
the patent titles may have been ratified into existence at some point),
and by that time the counterscam proposals were already coming in. The
prevention clause bounced around over the years from Rule 1869 to Rule
594 to Rule 105 to Rule 2140. (Rule 105 only protected rule power, so
there might have been a loophole during 2006-2007, but I think everyone
was too busy scamming partnerships around that time to notice.)
