> > On May 9, 2026, at 8:58 PM, Aris via agora-discussion > <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Sat, May 9, 2026 at 5:07 PM Gregory Hayes via agora-discussion < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> 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 > > > I suspect that the rules do prevent you from doing this. But I think you > might be missing a part of what ais523 is saying: even if the rules don't > prevent you from doing something, that doesn't mean you can do it. A player > can send a message saying "I teleport to the moon", and no rule prohibits > such teleportation. That doesn't mean that the player is on the moon, which > is likely fortunate for their well-being. There simply isn't any reason > that action should work. > > There's a precedent somewhere that there are some actions you can do by > announcement even without the rules saying so, like celebrating. Saying "I > celebrate x" is arguably enough to celebrate the thing, under the common > language definition of celebrating, and no rule stops you from celebrating > in this way. But I don't see how scoring a number is something you can just > naturally do. And even if you could (say you invented a game where you > could score a number by saying it, and thus scored points in that game by > announcement), I don't think the rules would pay attention to it. > > -Aris
No, I do understand that, I just don't think there's any textual support for the claim that mechanism-less actions are necessarily impossible in the rules. If they're impossible, that's a matter of Rule 217 interpretation, which makes Rule 2125 potentially relevant. I was just saying that technically that interpretation doesn't involve PROHIBITING unregulated actions so much as preventing them, or interpreting them as not being possible to begin with. - Galle
