Proposal: Cleaning up the dictatorship scam
Passes 9-2. Josh
Adminned at 26 Jun 2010 05:02:19 UTC
If the Ruleset contains a rule which currently has, or has had in the past, the text
The @ named Darth Cliche is the Dictator. The Dictator may alter the ruleset or gamestate in any way, at any time. This rule may not be repealed or modified except by the Dictator.
then create a new rule with the following text, except with NN replaced throughout by the number of that rule:
For the purpose of the rule numbered NN (but not for other rules), this rule is an @ named Darth Cliche, and the Dictator; this rule takes priority over any other rule which would make that impossible. As soon as this rule is created, rule NN is immediately repealed (and an admin should update the Ruleset on the wiki to allow for that change, if necessary). Then this rule immediately repeals itself (and an admin should update the Ruleset to allow for that change, if necessary).
It is legitimate to merge all changes that would be made to the Ruleset by this proposal into one change, or into no change at all if it would not change as a result.
If the scam was previously valid (and I think it may have been), but then the CFJ to get rid of it passed, it’s possible the dictatorship rule is still in the ruleset, just unusable. So let’s make sure it’s gone for good; this is just cleanup. Because the dictatorship rule makes itself impossible to repeal except by an @ named Darth Cliche, let’s make an rule that’s an @ named Darth Cliche to get rid of it.
“The number of that rule” could be referring to the number of your new rule.
lilomar: