The Time Machine and the Overseeing are technically Blogger auctions, by our definition of Auctions.

First line in the “Auctions” section:

“An Auction is a post auctioning off the employment of a Blogger.”

I personally find the killauctions to be super comfy though but I wouldn’t be opposed to removing it for, well, sheer self advantage reasons.

Please make it unambiguous that the Time Machine / Overseeing auctions wouldn’t be affected though. Regardless of the case I feel that it would be important.

OH WAIT THIS ISNT ABOUT THE REGULAR KILL AUCTIONS, THIS IS ABOUT WEAPONIZING IT FOR MASS TERRORISM.

Oh fuck

Well, ok, yeah. I’d greentick this. (Please add the Time/Oversee fix though)

Also, I’d amend that “The Blogger being auctioned must be employed by the Auctioneer” to something else because or else “That Blogger then does not count as employed by the auctioning Manager for the purposes of all rules” will trigger and having Auctions at all will be impossible because the Bloggers MUST be employed yet they’ll always count as not being employed, so a legal Auction could never be done.

I’m not sure if this actually makes auctions illegal, since the auctioned blogger “then” doesn’t count as employed, so I guess they could still count as employed until my new restriction is satisfied. I don’t really have time right now to find a better wording unfortunately, seems pretty tricky with all the different rules regarding auctions.

Because of the possibility of making it impossible to auction due to how “The Blogger being auctioned must be employed by the Auctioneer” and “That Blogger then does not count as employed by the auctioning Manager for the purposes of all rules” interact and you stating that you don’t have more time to adjust this and I’m afraid of that staying there.

(We’re also currently protected by “Managers may not create Auctions except where specified elsewhere in the Ruleset.” and the only at-will auctions we can do has: “At any time, a Manager can create an Auction for a Blogger they employ with a Duration of their choice.” unless I’m overlooking something.)

True, but “To create an Auction, a Manager, henceforth referred to as the Auctioneer, creates a story post” could be read as specifying “elsewhere”.

That explains the methodology via the which an Auction is made but doesn’t grant the power to perform it.

You gain no explicit permission to actually perform that action, just instructions about how that action is performed.

(obviously anyone who would attempt something like that would get slapped by a CfJ by the other players maybe with some deep teeth too)

I thought about exploiting this bug when it was introduced in order to gain good bloggers, but there were none that I wanted at the time and I realized it would just open the door to people stealing them back from me in the same manner.  I don’t think it would be the victim of a CFJ, though, as it’s perfectly within the rules as is to auction someone else’s blogger.

S/K