Proposal: "Betterer Pledges" AI=1.7 Coauthor='G., Gaelan, Aris'
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Replace the text of Rule 2450 with the following:
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A pledge is an agreement between a player and Agora.
Breaking a publicly-made pledge is a cardable offense.
If a publicly-made pledge says that the creator of a pledge will do
something,
without providing a time limit, then e SHALL in a timely manner in
order to not
break said pledge.
A player SHALL NOT make any pledge that would create new obligations
for any other person.
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On Mon, May 22, 2017 at 5:22 PM Aris Merchant <
thoughtsoflifeandligh...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, May 22, 2017 at 5:19 PM, Kerim Aydin <ke...@u.washington.edu>
> wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Mon, 22 May 2017, Aris Merchant wrote:
> >>
> >> I smell cheese. Lots of cheese. We already have cuttlefish, do we
> >> really need to Trap any Mice?
> >>
> >> Obscure history references aside, this allows someone to make a pledge
> >> binding on someone else (e.g. Pledge: Quazie will give me all of eir
> >> shinies).
> >
> > Not that we shouldn't fix the wording, but that's stopped by R869:
> > The Rules CANNOT otherwise bind a
> > person to abide by any agreement without that person's willful
> > consent.
> > (assuming we use the same common-language interpretation we have in
> > the past, that a pledge is a type of unilateral agreement).
> >
> That's a relief. Still, it should be in the rule itself.
>
> -Aris
>
