(Recent) history question: why did contracts stop being entities that show up in a report?
Gaelan > On Oct 27, 2018, at 5:15 PM, Timon Walshe-Grey <m...@timon.red> wrote: > > ...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
