G. wrote:
On 7/3/2020 10:41 AM, Cuddle Beam via agora-discussion wrote:
What's the Annabel Crisis?
- After a lot of discussion about whether the game was unfixable, it was
fixed by proposal ratifying everything e'd done, and became the case study
for self-ratification and the "document purporting to be" language. The
fix steps included everyone announcing that they "resigned promotor" so
there was certainty over who might be promotor (because only the promotor
could distribute the fix).
Which was itself borrowed from the Quantum Crisis years earlier:
- A proposal switching to a new economy (Points -> Marks) was noticed
months after the fact to have failed on a technicality.
- This led to something like a couple dozen different potential
gamestates /just/ on the basis of how various officer successions were
interpreted, never mind the rest of the gamestate.
- Eventually there was consensus that the only sensible fix was to
collapse Promotor and Assessor via resignations, then adopt a fix
proposal to clean up the rest.
