An update on this project: > Some basic principles: > > 1. The actions undertaken so far were undertaken in broadly good faith with > respect to the transactional nature of the current economic rules, and > performed with the mistaken understanding that several key rules made actions > POSSIBLE instead of making them PERMISSIBLE. These actions should not be > invalidated over a simple rule defect, even where those actions were clearly > scams in other ways. (Quazie, I’m trying to let you and CuddleBeam keep your > ill-gotten stamp winnings.) >
> 1a. Whatever fix we undertake should _not_ somehow resurrect actions we had > all understood, within the context of that mistaken reading of the rules, to > be ineffective or impossible at the time they were performed. > > 2. Whatever solution we apply to permit those actions must also protect their > side effects. It does Agora no good to enforce our intended understanding of > shinies, stamps, and the floating value if we still have to throw away > several proposals, both passed and in flight, and several CFJs. > > 3. The solution should be robust against additional actions performed in the > potentially substantial time between its initial submission as a proposal, > and its final enactment. In the absence of criticism, I have to assume y’all think these are reasonable principles to apply, and I’m proceeding accordingly. They seem to be working out okay, and it’s kept the recordkeeping reasonably simple, though I would appreciate if players would avoid hedging their shiny-driven actions. You may cause an action you intend to fall under principle 1 to fall under principle 1a, instead. > With that in mind, here are the things I believe need to happen: > > 1. The proposals fixing the stamps, welcome package, and floating value rules > need to pass. If there are any lingering bugs you’re aware of that would > perpetuate our shiny problems, please share them so that we can get those > fixed, too. The proposals for this are distributed, other than one late-breaking bugfix for Agoraculture. As Agoraculture has only just been enacted PLEASE DO NOT PERFORM ACTIONS FROM THE AGORACULTURE RULES UNTIL THE MAY/CAN BUGS IN THEM ARE FIXED. Let’s not have a repeat quite that quickly. To the Agronomist: I recommend adjudicating these rules, and these rules only, as if they mean exactly what they say, which I believe means that it is presently impossible to create Comestibles. > 2. I need to draft a proposal that, somehow, ratifies the results of all > shiny-related and stamp-related actions since July 30th, when nichdel > attempted to create the first stamp. This proposal also needs a catch-all > clause to cause it to ratify shiny actions taken after this proposal is > submitted but before it passes, or we need a gentleagorans’ agreement not to > do anything with shinies or stamps for the duration. Having slept on this a bit, and understanding the ratification process a bit better, I think this proposal will comprise two parts: 1. A condition that matches only the prior actions that would fall under principle 1 and ratifies them in place with the rules retroactively changed, and 2. A list of all such actions known at the time of writing for the proposal, by reference (through links into the archives). The latter acts as a fallback in case the former is inadequate in some way, while the former allows players to continue transacting nominal shinies without losing those transactions when ratification happens. Does this seem reasonable -o
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