Amend rule 1.2 by replacing

Admins may render an Artist Idle if that Artist has asked to become Idle in the last seven days or if that Artist has not posted an entry or comment in the last seven days. In the latter case, the Admin must announce the idling in a blog post.

with

Admins may render an Artist Idle or remove their Idle status (“de-idling”) if one or more of the following conditions are met:

1. That Artist has made a blog post requesting this change in the last seven days (an idling post);
2. That Artist has made a comment requesting this change on the most recent idling post;
3. That Artist is the Admin themselves;
4. That Artist has not posted an entry or comment in the last seven days, and the action to be performed is idling, not de-idling.

In the first three cases, the Admin must announce the change in either a comment on the relevant blog post (if they performed the change to themselves, then any idling post posted within the last seven days is considered relevant) or by making a new blog post; in the last case, it must be announced by the Admin in a new blog post. An Artist can only be de-idled if they did not go idle within the same dynasty in the previous four days, the previous conditions notwithstanding.

and removing

Admins may de-Idle an Artist at their request, and Idle Admins may de-idle themselves at any time, unless the idle Artist in question asked to become (or rendered themselves) Idle within the previous 4 days, and within the current dynasty.

Add to the glossary the following:

Idling post

Any post made within the last seven days within which an Artist requests to be idled or de-idled.

Right now, anyone can send a carrier pigeon to an admin requesting to be de-idled, and then ten years later, an admin can perform that request silently. I know I didn’t notice a few de-idlings in the recent invasion until they actually voted, and imagine the case of someone voting and then being silently de-idled a minute later; we might never know, causing votes to be miscounted!

This doesn’t lead to a deluge of spam, since de-idlings at the start of a dynasty can be contained within the comments of one post.

I let admins announce idlings/de-idlings requested by comment in new blog post just in case a post gets locked for whatever reason; admins would be expected to apply discretion and use a comment wherever possible.

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Fixes incorporated from coppro and Ornithopter.

Again, any wording suggestions welcome. Note that the second point is /not/ susceptible to people making idling/de-idling comments on a post older than seven days, because the first point and the glossary entry mandate that the only posts that are idling posts must be less than seven days old.