On Thu, 2022-07-07 at 18:56 -0400, Jason Cobb via agora-discussion wrote: > On 7/5/22 13:59, secretsnail9 via agora-business wrote: > > > > Repeal Rule 2618 (Promises). > > > > Repeal Rule 1742 (Contracts). > > > > Repeal Rule 2450 (Pledges). > > > They all serve different purposes and are useful under different > circumstances. Repealing contracts alone could be part of a > reasonable attempt to restructure the game away from economic > contracts, but that doesn't seem to be what's happening here.
We could probably do without pledges – those have hardly been used recently (and under past rulesets, were a special case of a contract). They could also be implemented *by* contract rather than in the ruleset (i.e. we just have a contract that lets its members pledge to things). Now that contracts permit act-on-behalf, it would probably be possible to implement promises by contract too, but they've been so useful for agreeing one-time trades that it may make sense to keep them around separately. (As a side note, another possible direction is attempting to implement as much of Agora by contract as possible – possibly even to the extent of, e.g., a charity that publishes the rules rather than a separate Rulekeepor post. I think this has been discussed in the past, but never implemented. It would have the potential to make the ruleset a lot shorter, which might be helpful for newer players, but we'd still probably need a lot of text to protect the proposal system and for disaster recovery.) -- ais523
