...here's another idea I've been toying with for a while:
This document is a contract between twg (the "Game Master" or "GM") and one or more other parties (the "Competitors"). Any player can become a Competitor and any Competitor can cease to be a party to this contract. The GM cannot cease to be a party. The text of this document is divided into two sections: the "Immutable Rules" and the "Mutable Rules". The Immutable Rules are the portion of the text up to and including the first paragraph, other than this one, that contains the phrase "The Mutable Rules begin here." The Mutable Rules are the portion of the text that is not the Immutable Rules. The GM SHALL make reasonable efforts to ensure that e remains in possession of a full and complete copy of this document, and that its contents are not deleted, destroyed, corrupted, stolen, irreversibly encrypted, or otherwise placed beyond eir capability to read. The GM SHALL NOT disclose substantial portions of the Mutable Rules to other players, except that should a player Point eir Finger citing an alleged failure to act in accordance with this contract, the GM MAY and SHOULD privately disclose portions of the Mutable Rules to the investigator of that Finger Pointing, as necessary for the investigator to perform eir investigation. The GM is ENCOURAGED to maintain a public version of this document that has each paragraph of the Mutable Rules replaced by its SHA-512 hash. Any party to this contract CAN, With Agoran Consent from Competitors and Without Objection from the GM, modify this contract by altering the Immutable Rules. The GM SHOULD NOT object to an announcement of intent to modify this contract unless e believes that the modification would be significantly detrimental to its correct functioning. Any party to this contract CAN, With Agoran Consent from Competitors, modify this contract by performing any number of the following alterations, in a specific order, to the Mutable Rules: - Adding, at a specific position of eir choice, a paragraph whose text has been disclosed to the GM and whose text has been uniquely identified (for example, by means of a SHA-512 hash) as part of the announcement of intent to modify the contract. - Removing a specific paragraph. - Replacing all occurrences of a specific word or phrase with a different specific word or phrase. The Mutable Rules begin here. -twg
