Monday, July 10, 2023

Proposal: A Handful of Small Key Changes

Reaches quorum 6-1 and is enacted -SingularByte

Adminned at 11 Jul 2023 06:58:17 UTC

In the rule “Initialisation”, after “The text string of an Agenda must include exactly 2 different Initialisation Keys.”, add the following sentence:

An Initialisation Key still counts as being included in an Agenda if an alternate form or tense of that Key appears in that Agenda’s text.

In the rule “Desires”, capitalise the first letters in “Construct Housing”, “Neighbors”, and “Destroy”. Remove the bold formatting from the word “all”.

In the rule “Subsystems”, bold the first instance of the word “Facilities”.

the only thing i feel needs justification here is the change to “Destroy All”; i just think that things might get weird if we have multiple Agendas based around destroying everything! destroying specific things sounds much more flexible to me :0

Comments

Bucky:

10-07-2023 06:50:45 UTC

What about destroying all of just one specific category?

SingularByte: he/him

10-07-2023 07:44:35 UTC

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lemon: she/her

10-07-2023 07:47:27 UTC

@Bucky that could work, but would be much less flexible, i think

Josh: he/they

10-07-2023 08:04:54 UTC

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Kevan: he/him

10-07-2023 12:08:09 UTC

imperial

JonathanDark: he/him

10-07-2023 12:56:37 UTC

A different tense makes sense, but “an alternate form” feels a bit wobbly to me. Is there a solid definition of what “an alternate form” means linguistically? This feels like a potential scam opening.

Bucky:

10-07-2023 15:24:43 UTC

against as this overrides some deliberate decisions about the scope of initialization keys in my previous proposals.

Raven1207: he/they

10-07-2023 22:43:29 UTC

for

JonathanDark: he/him

10-07-2023 23:48:12 UTC

After consideration, I’ve resolved my objections. The proposed changes in “Dynastic Fair Play” should cover my concerns.

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