There’s no rate limit on doing this, meaning that a small group of conspirators could keep repeating this until one of them was at each clearance level from INFRARED to a level equal to the number of conspirators (assuming they could promote from INFRARED via passed proposals). Sufficiently many conspirators working together would reach BLUE clearance, at which point they could promote each other up to ORANGE and set up an infinite loop which would bring all of them to ULTRAVIOLET; 5 would be enough for this giving optimal proposal-passing.

That is, given optimal proposal-passing.

Just done the calculations: 11 conspirators would be enough to set up the loop even without the help of proposals passing, and up to 6 passed proposals would reduce the number of conspirators needed by 1 per proposal, meaning that the loop could theoretically be set up by just 5 conspirators. That said, that sort of play might be interesting; the issue is, it would be very spammy, as 13 separate forms would need filling in just to reach BLUE clearance, and another 13 for each round of promotion loops after that.

    are you questioning the friend computer’s ability to spot such commie treason?

But not for ais523’s reasoning.

I am discouraging the use of DICE in this dynasty, so one point against.
I don’t like random clearance level increases and decreases, so two points against.
The loser is almost certain to be terminated, when they are assigned 5 treason points, which is a bit extreme, so three points against.
On the other hand, I like forms, so one point for.
If someone manages to organize as many conspiritors as ais outlines, they deserve the clearance boost, so half a point for.

Total: 3 against, 1.5 for.

Hence the vote.

@lilomar: I don’t mind that sort of conspiracy (I’m sort of a fan of it), but I dislike optimal scams requiring of the order of 65 story posts to pull off.

I think that before all of those story posts were made, there would be a cfj pushed through to fix it. If not, well, it’s impressive still, so I wouldn’t mind it as a one-time thing.

CoV because it is undefined what happens when an INFRARED Citizen gets demoted.

Actually, it looks like the form would fail in that case.  CoV again.

[ais523] This is why it might be nice to have a fixed “player may make no more than X posts per day” spam limit in the Fair Play rules.

@Kevan: That would be worse, in a sense, in that it would encourage a huge amount of grinding whenever a scam like this came up in order to get it done as fast as possible.

would vote if the form itself had some sort of rate limit as per ais523’s reasoning.

[ais523] Except that grinding is slow, and we can cut it short with a fix proposal when we notice it happening. I’d rather vote on a mechanic with “includes a powerful loop if players grind it over the course of a week”, which is fixable before it really kicks in, than “includes a powerful loop which someone could run through in ten minutes as soon as this enacts, which may or may not qualify as ‘spam’ in the fair play guidelines”, which isn’t.

S/K

.. as this seems to fail. Besides I am not that convinced of this idea any more.