One could lead to the other, at least with our ruleset now. An unknown public forum is an excellent place to win by apathy!
I think we need a rule against deliberately hidden announcements. Gaelan > On May 22, 2017, at 12:37 AM, Alex Smith <ais...@alumni.bham.ac.uk> wrote: > >> On Mon, 2017-05-22 at 01:46 -0400, Owen Jacobson wrote: >>> On May 21, 2017, at 1:37 AM, Gaelan Steele <g...@canishe.com> wrote: >>> >>> The following section is not a portion of the report: >>> For the purposes of this section, The Sentence is “I intend, >>> without objection, to declare [word], specifying myself.” >>> I execute The Sentence, substituting [word] for a word >>> beginning with “ap” that is a synonym for “not caring.” >> >> This appears to be an attempt to abuse the office of Rulekeepor for >> personal gain, in the form of initiating a victory by Apathy for >> Gaelan while hiding it within the voluminous reports required of eir >> office. That the attempt may not succeed does not justify eir >> intentions. Accordingly, I issue Gaelan a Pink Slip for abuse of the >> office of Rulekeepor for the crime of Forgery. > > For what it's worth, I slipped an intent to create a new public forum > into the Registrar's report once, which lead to some fun gameplay for a > bit. I can't remember whether we decided to crack down on intents > buried in the middle of lengthy reports in response to that, but it was > definitely ruled to have worked at the time. > > Of course, intending to make a new public forum is a rather different > sort of action than intending to win the game. > > -- > ais523
