I think doing karma would take a deeper look at all the SHALLs and
SHOULDs to ask which ones should still be illegal versus left to
karma - a deeper reform.  Mean time, this version isn't that much
different than current I'll probably go PRESENT on it.

On Sun, 10 Sep 2017, Aris Merchant wrote:
> I pay Agora 1 shiny to pend "Truthfulness v2". I'm not sure it's going
> to pass, but I'd like to see what arguments people add to their votes.
> I'm also worried that as nichdel pointed out, a "democratized" system
> is likely to turn into a popularity contest, although G.'s karma thing
> sounds interesting.
> 
> -Aris
> 
> On Sun, Sep 10, 2017 at 12:45 AM, Aris Merchant
> <thoughtsoflifeandligh...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I retract the proposal "Truthfulness", and submit the following.
> >
> > ---
> > Title: Truthfulness v2
> > Adoption index: 1.0
> > Author: Aris
> > Co-authors:
> >
> > Amend Rule 2471, "No Faking", by changing it to read in full:
> >
> >   A person SHALL NOT make a public statement that is a lie. A statment is a 
> > lie
> >   if its publisher either knew or believed it to be not to be true at the 
> > time
> >   e published it (or, in the case of an action, not to be effective), and it
> >   was made with the intent to mislead. Merely quoting a statement does not
> >   constitute making it for the purposes of this rule.  Any disclaimer,
> >   conditional clause, or other qualifier attached to a statement constitutes
> >   part of the statement for the purposes of this rule; the truth or falsity 
> > of
> >   the whole is what is significant.
> >
> >   The previous provisions of this rule notwithstanding, a formal 
> > announcement of
> >   intent is never a lie.
> >
> > On Sun, Sep 10, 2017 at 12:33 AM, Aris Merchant
> > <thoughtsoflifeandligh...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> I submit the following proposal. Proposals are cheap, so I'm just
> >> going to put this out and probably pend it tomorrow. This alters our
> >> current "No Faking" Rule, changing it into an old-fashioned no lying
> >> in public rule. My primary motivation for this is the rather vague
> >> idea that it might lead to interesting gameplay, as it certainly did
> >> in the past. Note that it only applies to the public fora, so you're
> >> free to lie as much as you like on a-d, as I understand is
> >> traditional. I borrowed most of the text, tweaking it to make it a
> >> little less demanding.
> >>
> >> -Aris
> >> ---
> >> Title: Truthfulness
> >> Adoption index: 1.0
> >> Author: Aris
> >> Co-authors:
> >>
> >> Amend Rule 2471, "No Faking", by changing it to read in full:
> >>
> >>   A person SHALL NOT make a public statement that is a lie. A statment is 
> >> a lie
> >>   if its publisher either knew or believed it to be not to be true (or, in 
> >> the
> >>   case of an action, not to be effective), and it is made with the intent 
> >> to
> >>   mislead. Merely quoting a statement does not constitute making it for the
> >>   purposes of this rule.  Any disclaimer, conditional clause, or other
> >>   qualifier attached to a statement constitutes part of the statement for
> >>   the purposes of this rule; the truth or falsity of the whole is what is
> >>   significant.
> >>
> >>   The previous provisions of this rule notwithstanding, a formal 
> >> announcement of
> >>   intent is never a lie.
>

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