This clears some things up about regulations and allows tournament
regulations to provide for their own modification (which people keep
*wanting* to do and finding out is impossible):
{
Amend Rule 2493 ("Regulations") by, as a single amendment, doing the
following (failing as a whole if any step fails):
* Replacing the first paragraph with the following:
{
A regulation is a textual entity defined as such by a Rule (its parent
rule) and existing solely because that Rule defines its existence. A
regulation has no effect other than those that the Rules explicitly give
it.
}
* Deleting the sentence beginning "By default, a person CAN".
[Mimic the language for assets with regulations. Change the positive "It
has only the effect that rule explicitly gives it" to a negative version
(to avoid any chance of power escalation), and allow rules other than a
regulation's parent rule to give it effects (e.g. R648 for the Herald's
Administrative Regulations). Remove promulgators; we already specify how
every type of regulation can be changed.]
Amend Rule 2464 ("Tournaments") by, as a single amendment, doing the
following (failing as a whole if any step fails):
* Deleting the sentence "The person who initiates a tournament is its
Gamemaster.".
* Inserting the following sentence before "Once the tournament is
concluded": "When a tournament is initiated, its governing regulations
are enacted.". [This makes clear that R2464 is the parent rule.]
* Appending the following paragraphs:
{
Unless otherwise specified by the tournament's regulations, the
gamemaster of a tournament is the person who initiated it.
A tournament's regulations can provide for the enactment, amendment, and
repeal of regulations for that tournament; if the regulations are
silent, the gamemaster CAN, with 2 Agoran consent, enact, amend, or
repeal such regulations. Any regulations so enacted are deemed to be
regulations of the same tournament.
}
* Replacing the text "freely consent to play the tournament" with
"freely consent to oversee or participate in the tournament". [Ensure
this includes gamemasters. If a person is made gamemaster of a
tournament without eir consent, e still is not required to abide by the
regulations unless e "freely consent[s]" to it.]
Amend Rule 2495 ("The Birthday Tournament") by replacing the text
"promulgating a specified, finalized set of tournament regulations" with
the text "specifying a finalized set of governing regulations" and by
deleting the sentence beginning "These regulations may thereafter be
amended".
}
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Janet Cobb
Assessor, Rulekeepor
