Thursday, July 13, 2023

Proposal: Clarity is Key

Reached quorum 6 votes to 0. Enacted by Kevan.

Adminned at 14 Jul 2023 16:26:28 UTC

In the rule “Initialisation”, change

An Initialisation Key is a term that appears with bold formatting in the dynastic rules at least one time

to

An Initialisation Key is a term that appears with bold formatting in the dynastic rules at least one time, and that is not contained in a longer Initialization Key

If there is a rule “Desires” containing the Initialisation key “Construct Housing”, then remove the sentence containing it from that rule.

If there is no rule “Initialisation Phase One”, create it as a subrule of “Initialisation” with that name and the following text:

If there are at least twice as many Initialisation Keys as there are active Machinists, the Great Machine can and should repeal this subrule.

 

Is “Construct” an Initialization Key that just happens to be next to the key “Housing”? That’s a bad ambiguity to let stand.

Comments

JonathanDark: he/him

13-07-2023 17:02:15 UTC

Interesting way to interpret the meaning of “term”. I suppose a Machinist’s Agenda could be invalidated if they happen to have one that contained one of the Megasystems, like System of Control, and the argument was that it counted as 3 Intialisation Keys due to having 3 “terms” and thus violated “The text string of an Agenda must include exactly 2 different Initialisation Keys.”

SingularByte: he/him

13-07-2023 21:01:22 UTC

for

JonathanDark: he/him

13-07-2023 22:48:21 UTC

for

Kevan: he/him

14-07-2023 08:55:30 UTC

for

lemon: she/her

14-07-2023 09:49:23 UTC

for

lendunistus: he/him

14-07-2023 10:27:57 UTC

for