Proposal: Comments should not be defined in the glossary
Quorum 13-1 and is enacted - coppro
Adminned at 05 Jul 2011 13:42:28 UTC
Remove the sentence
Voting and comments are accessible through the link at the bottom of every post.
from the Glossary.
Not only is this definition at best redundant to common sense (something that could be fixed by moving it to the FAQ), it’s incorrect. Scams based on ExpressionEngine quirks are discouraged, but this explicitly makes an ExpressionEngine quirk part of the game; only 100 comments are accessible via the link in question, and thus, because comments past the 100th aren’t accessible, by this definition they are not comments. (They can be read via admins, but not via the method shown in the rules, and thus don’t count.) This leads to a potential obnoxious core rules scam in which someone votes AGAINST a proposal or CFJ and then (possibly with the help of confederates) spams another 99 comments, making it impossible for anyone else to vote; this causes proposals to no longer be open for voting (and autofail after a week), and also autofails CFJs, potentially leading to a complete lock on the gamestate, and allowing people to effectively Mad King each other’s dynasties.
Kevan: he/him