On Mon, Jul 16, 2018 at 8:50 AM Alex Smith <ais...@alumni.bham.ac.uk> wrote:
> On Mon, 2018-07-16 at 08:14 -0700, Kerim Aydin wrote: > > Oh sorry, Aris's is deeply-hidden in the distribution message. Bad Aris. > > (that goes beyond my personal bounds for ambiguity, but I'm not the > officer > > so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ ) > > We should probably legislate a standard for this. A successful scam I > perpetrated many years ago worked on the basis of an intent buried in > the depths of the Registrar report, so we should probably have some > clear legal basis on when an announcement / public statement is too > hidden to be effective. (Admittedly, the scam in question was related > to a Registrar power, so it wasn't quite a maximally inappropriate > place to put it, but submitting proposals is related to a Promotor > power, so…) No objection to creating a standard for deliberately hiding actions in messages. That said, this wasn't deliberately hidden. It was written right where this kind of note is always written. The notation changed from a * to + as well. I can try adding a note somewhere near the top when I do this kind of thing, since it seems to confuse people. I'm honestly not sure what all the fuss is about this time. This notation has been in use for quite a while [1], and to the best of my knowledge, no one has ever complained about it before. Now, I'll grant that it's not very common these days, but I used it without any confusion a few weeks ago, and I'm likely to start using it even more again with the new pending system. I think right now it's mostly a matter of getting people used to it. I'm sorry I didn't mention that I was doing it, I just figured (to the extent I thought about it) that the change from * to + would be sufficient indicator. -Aris [1] https://mailman.agoranomic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/private/agora-official/2015-January/010959.html > >
