On Wed, 2013-06-19 at 20:37 -0700, omd wrote: > On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 8:29 PM, Sean Hunt <[email protected]> > wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 4:38 PM, Alex Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Time to do a total copout, I guess, given that I'm not paying enough > >> attention to sort this out by myself: > >> > >> For each colour of ribbon, I attempt to award myself a ribbon of that > >> colour. > > > > Why would this fail? Unreasonable amount of effort to sort it out? > > I believe precedent is that since it would not make a significant > difference in the 'spam factor' of the message to write it out > explicitly (since it's just 14 actions), the abbreviation does not > fail. In general we never prohibit abbreviations that expand to a > short, well-defined list of actions.
The argument for failure would be that my attempts to award myself Ribbons would fail because I don't know whether they would succeed or not. (We could fix the problem by either forbidding attempts to take illegal actions, which is a little draconian but was a rule in place for quite a long time, or by requiring Ribbon awards to specify the event for which the Ribbon was awarded.) -- ais523
