Thursday, February 12, 2009

Proposal: Careless Talk Costs Lives

Due to a discrepancy in the 3rd line of the 2nd page of Form D12, this Proposal has been deemed unfit for the eyes of the general public.

That is all.

General Amnistar

Adminned at 12 Feb 2009 08:48:29 UTC

[ As per this failed italics scam, it’s only a matter of time before someone carries out a genuinely subtle version by italicising a single, emphatic “not”. Or gives us a broken rule by absent-mindedly italicising something for emphasis. ]

In the glossary, replace “Italicized text, also known as Flavor Text, is not considered part of any form of gamestate and may be used to clarify proposals or rules with examples, notes, and flavor text. For example, this italicized text provides an example of the use of italicized text.” with:-

If more than half of the words in a sentence of a rule or proposal are visibly italicised, then that sentence is Flavor Text and is not a legally binding part of the gamestate or ruleset. Flavor Text may be used to clarify proposals or rules with examples, notes or descriptive text.

Comments

SingularByte: he/him

12-02-2009 12:36:23 UTC

for

ais523:

12-02-2009 12:46:22 UTC

against Broken, it falls to the same scam it’s trying to prevent. You’re trying to remove the sentence “For example, this italicized text provides an example of the use of italicized text.” from the Glossary, but technically speaking it isn’t there (it’s there but in italics, therefore not part of the gamestate.) Without the text to replace, the entire proposal will fail.

Also, I think we’ll all be on the lookout for italics scams for a while. Probably.

Kevan: he/him

12-02-2009 13:01:06 UTC

Heh, fair enough, I’ll self-kill and repropose it some time.  against

I’d rather not have to be on the constant lookout for the sneakier versions of a scam, when we can easily legislate against them.

Clucky: he/him

12-02-2009 15:52:18 UTC

Kevan—someone actually did do the *not* scam to win a few months ago. =P

Amnistar: he/him

12-02-2009 16:47:37 UTC

veto BOOOOOOOOOOM