Enacted popular, 9-0. Josh
Adminned at 23 Mar 2022 14:40:58 UTC
In the Appendix rule Rules and Votable Matters, add the following as a final bullet point:
When the ruleset calls for the use of a specific tool (such as the dice roller, or an off-domain website, or a specific piece of downloadable software), Researchers may not deliberately interfere with the function of that tool except in ways explicitly permitted by the ruleset.
Hm, this still contains a loophole, albeit a finer one. In a case where a player has some sort of control over a tool they can just change the function of the tool in a way that isn’t obvious or documented - eg Kevan could make it so that the dice roller always rolls nat 20s when the Up arrow key is held while pressing the roll button - that’s not technically “interfering” with the function as much as it is making use of undocumented aspects of the function.
It still contains a loophole, but it doesn’t introduce any new ones AFAIK so I’m 
it - we can still plug other loopholes in further iterations. =)
Since the dice roller is in the ruleset, couldn’t you argue that adding hidden functions is interfering with its function, since this is not an action allowed by the ruleset?
@GloopyGhost: For the dice roller specifically I agree, but for other stuff like the Parallelizer there’s no such provision ^^
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