On Tue, 2026-04-21 at 16:37 -0400, Gregory Hayes via agora-business wrote: > I have to admit I'm kind of shocked that people just voted in a rule that > effectively says "spend 25 spendies to do whatever you want". Maybe people > are just in a very generous mood right now. I intend to Declare Apathy > without objection, specifying myself.
I'm in the same boat! It was obvious to me that there was some kind of scam planned, and didn't say anything or bother voting AGAINST because I didn't see exactly how it was going to happen and was curious to see the execution, but I at least expected them to have to force it through somehow. I object, by the way. > I assume that the gist of the plan is to have Janet carry out all of these > rule changes in the same message in which e resolves the proposal's adoption. > If so, I don't see any particular issues except for the part where > Dictatorship A and B somehow gain Power 3, it's not clear from your > notifications how that's supposed to happen. Probably intentionally, but > maybe that's the stumbling block that will make the scam fail, I don't know. The trick is that some of ais523's notifications refer to rule changes as a result of proposals being *adopted*, rather than re-enacted by the new rule. The escalator in question, if I'm not mistaken, is that although proposals can only be adopted by resolving a referendum (enforced at power 3 by Rule 106), Rule 208 fails to secure the action of resolving a referendum, even though it contains language that looks like it does. I spotted that a while ago and kept it in my back pocket, but didn't connect it to this since I didn't see how they were going to get the power-1 dictatorship here. (If it's not that, we should probably fix that anyway.) Unfortunately the only straightforward way to counterscam that I see is an Emergency Regulation, which will be why ais523 waited until e was Prime Minister to carry it out. (To save anyone else wasting time double-checking: ais523 is not overdue to appoint anyone Laureled as Speaker, and the initiation of the referendum on proposal 9328 correctly stated its quorum, which has been met.) ~qenya
