Wednesday, March 24, 2021

Proposal: By the Book

Reached quorum 7 votes to 0. Enacted by Kevan.

Adminned at 25 Mar 2021 10:02:51 UTC

In “Tournament Rules of Giolitti”, replace:-

Identify the most recent edit to the ruleset in the wiki page’s edit log; this edit is the Environment for that game.

with:

Identify the most recent legal revision of the ruleset in its wiki page’s history; this revision is the Environment for that game.

Clarifying that only legal versions of the ruleset can be converted to Environment rules. As it stands there’s scope to illegally scrawl “the player named Machiavelli wins all games”, or worse, in the ruleset wiki and have it become a live rule of Giolitti, if I endorse it as an Environment without noticing. The altered version would never legally be in the ruleset, but the Environment doesn’t currently care about that, it’s just a “convert wiki page revision into valid rule text” machine.

Also adopting the strict “revision” terminology of the wiki, for clarity, although I think “edit” has been fine so far under common usage.

posted by Kevan at 24 Mar 2021 10:51:00 UTC Comments (7)

Comments

Josh: he/they

24-03-2021 10:57:09 UTC

for

Raven1207: he/they

24-03-2021 11:47:33 UTC

for

Lulu: she/her

24-03-2021 12:33:30 UTC

for

Bucky:

24-03-2021 16:10:42 UTC

for

Bucky:

24-03-2021 16:57:05 UTC

Hmm, one can make a legal edit (say, an obvious typo fix) to an illegal revision (say, one with “a Trump played by a player named Bucky causes that player to achieve victory” added to the Trumps rule). So yes, the distinction is necessary.

Clucky: he/him

24-03-2021 19:41:14 UTC

for

Brendan: he/him

24-03-2021 20:00:47 UTC

for