No one ever said the last bit. We simply decided that the previous system was too complicated, and we wanted something lighter weight.
-Aris On Sat, Oct 27, 2018 at 9:17 PM Reuben Staley <reuben.sta...@gmail.com> wrote: > It was decided the current system was too complicated for how many use > cases it was applicable in do Aris made proposals to simplify it and get > rid of the Notary. They are now meant to be more short-term and to serve a > single purpose. > > On Sat, Oct 27, 2018, 21:18 Gaelan Steele <g...@canishe.com> wrote: > > > (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 > > > > >
