Maybe, but I’d guess not. Assigning a number to something is inherently a by announcement action. If I say “this is boat number 1”, then it’s boat #1 by my definition. All Rule 2141 does is to say the Rulekeepor’s definitions are the ones officially recognized by Agora.
-Aris On Sat, Jun 1, 2019 at 8:09 PM Ørjan Johansen <oer...@nvg.ntnu.no> wrote: > No method? There might be a Rule 2125 problem here. > > Greetings, > Ørjan. > > On Sat, 1 Jun 2019, Aris Merchant wrote: > > > Good question. Rule 2141 says that the Rulekeepor can assign a number, > and > > doesn’t say in what way e must do so, so e could theoretically assign any > > number. You’re right that this gives em some power over conflict > > resolution. However, as a matter of convention, e only assigns the next > > number in line. The rule is left unspecified so that there isn’t a > problem > > if e assigns the wrong number by mistake and also because defining which > > number e has to use would require the rule to write out the algorithm to > be > > used. The benefit gained by assigning the wrong number is small enough > that > > the Rulekeepor can be trusted not to annoy everyone by breaking the > > convention. Make sense? > > > > -Aris > > > > > > On Sat, Jun 1, 2019 at 5:57 PM Jason Cobb <jason.e.c...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > >> Hello everyone, > >> > >> I'm new, and I've just started reading the rules, so please forgive me > if > >> this is has an obvious answer. > >> > >> Can the Rulekeepor assign any ID numbers to rules that e wishes? I ask > >> because I noticed that the ID numbers of rules affect conflict > resolution, > >> and there doesn't seem to be a way of assigning ID numbers specified in > the > >> rules, thus giving the Rulekeepor some (small) amount of say in the > >> application of the rules. > >> > >> Jason Cobb > >> > > >
