On Thu, 3 Aug 2017, Alex Smith wrote: > I'd have attempted to use the scam to close itself if I could think of > a way to do so (either it fails, no big deal, nothing happens; or it > succeeds and thus there isn't a scam now), but I don't think there is a > way to use the scam to close itself; it's just not powerful enough.
Actually, on reflection I'm really surprised at you making this statement. Apparently the ability to cancel other players' ballots is dangerous enough to require the installation of a month-long dictatorship "for Agora's Protection", but the ability to ratify votes isn't... note: I think we have a fairly well-established set of precedents on limited causality. If a ratification changes votes, which then lead to a proposal being adopted, and the proposal changes the rules, it's not the ratification that "caused" the rule change, it's the proposal (this is necessary by R105 as it's the instrument - the proposal - which has to cause the change). So R2202 is actually not as protective as all that.
