Oh, you're quite right, yes. You can change votes on old proposals, which then changes the ruleset, but you can't affect those proposals themselves if that causes a change.
On Thu, Sep 28, 2017 at 12:54 AM, Alex Smith <ais...@alumni.bham.ac.uk> wrote: > On Thu, 2017-09-28 at 00:51 +1000, VJ Rada wrote: >> No, yeah, the proposal was rejected anyway. As I recall it repealed >> the already-repealed dictatorship and existed only for the purpose of >> a CFJ. I'm just doing this because of the uncontroversial nature of >> GOD, the amount of reports it existed in, and the fact that SOME game >> actions rested on it. >> >> You're mistaken though that you can't change the existence of >> proposals by RWO: precedent is clear that you can create proposals >> with it. > > I said you can't change the /ruleset/ with it. You can change the > gamestate so that a proposal existed and was adopted, but it won't have > created a rule when it did so (unless the proposal actually did exist) > because RWO is incapable of making that consequence of proposal > adoption happen. > > -- > ais523 -- >From V.J. Rada
