"Using existing terminology (I hope correctly), an action which CAN be performed, if the rules impose no other constraints, can be done in any way at all"
Here's a list (it's quite short) of CANs w/out "by announcement", "w/o objection" or anything similar. "The Promotor CAN distribute a proposal which is in the Proposal Pool at any time." "A player CAN expedite a proposal whose adoption index is at most 1.5, in a message containing the character string "[Expedition]" in the subject line," "then the Prime Minister CAN and SHALL, once and in a timely fashion, appoint a Laureled player to the office of Speaker." "Once per week and except as otherwise forbidden by this rule, the current Prime Minister CAN issue a Cabinet Order and perform the action(s) authorized by that Order." On Sat, Sep 9, 2017 at 3:18 PM, Owen Jacobson <o...@grimoire.ca> wrote: > >> On Sep 9, 2017, at 1:04 AM, VJ Rada <vijar...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Nope the text for CAN is this: " >> >> CAN: Attempts to perform the described action are successful.". That's >> all. So this is just mirroring that. If you want to make an argument >> that you can do anything with a CAN in private, sure. > > What the esteemed G. is saying is that enabling an action, without > restriction, is dangerous, and applying that to every single place in the > rules where MAY is present needs much more thorough review. > > Using existing terminology (I hope correctly), an action which CAN be > performed, if the rules impose no other constraints, can be done in any way > at all - including a-d posts, private messages, or even in the secrecy of > ones’ own head. An action which CAN be performed by announcement is more > limited, and is only successful if done via a public forum (r. 478, “Fora”). > > Existing rules that use CAN are, generally, fairly careful of that > distinction. Rules that don’t use CAN aren’t. Simply tacking “and attempts > are successful” onto MAY means that rules such as r. 2467 would permit > unpublished, secret attempts to perform the action to succeed, making the > game state in large part unknowable. > > -o > -- >From V.J Rada
