> On May 9, 2026, at 3:52 PM, ais523 via agora-business > <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Sat, 2026-05-09 at 10:45 -0400, Gregory Hayes via agora-business > wrote: >> I cause myself to score 1111222233334444555566667777888899990000. >> (that's four of each digit). > > How? Even if this action is unregulated, the rules don't provide "by > announcement" as a method of doing it. > > Our public announcements on the mailing lists only do anything when the > rules say they do. Normally this is a consequence of the penultimate > paragraph of rule 478 (which states that if a rule defines that > something can be done by announcement, a correctly-worded message to a > public list is capable of doing it). > > If there isn't a rule providing that you can do something by > announcement, stating that you are doing it doesn't trigger anything in > the rules and thus doesn't cause it to happen. > > (There are a few other reasons this fails, e.g. rule 2713 only triggers > on numbers that are scored "as described in this rule". But the "the > rules don't provide a mechanism for this" is the interesting reason why > it doesn't work.) > > (And to the long-time Agorans here, I give the obligatory > YAEOTISIDTIDFTHPAFALT.) > > -- > ais523
Fair argument, I guess "prohibit" is not the same thing as "prevent", so the rules could be interpreted as preventing an action with no mechanism without prohibiting it. I do note that if Rule 2713's "as described in this rule" clause blocks this, it also blocks scoring numbers from Agoran birthdays and welcome packages. - Galle
