Friday, March 10, 2017

Proposal: Movin’ and Travelin’

Reached quorum 8 votes to 0. Enacted by Kevan.

Adminned at 10 Mar 2017 23:09:30 UTC

In the rule “Habitat” change:

The Creature can’t travel to Locations named “Foggy Location”.

to

The Creature can’t move to a Location named “Foggy Location”.

A creature does not “travel” to “locations”. A creature “moves” to “a location”. The primary purpose of this proposal is to standardize “move” as the action of The Creature changing positions, as “Travel” is not defined.

Comments

Oracular rufio:

10-03-2017 00:24:23 UTC

I think this is really nitpicky and that the plain English meaning of “move” is what is used in the ruleset, and thus “travel” is a synonym.  We haven’t said, for example “moving is an action the Creature can take, when the Creature moves from on Location to another, now the Creature is in the new Location” because we all know what moving means.  For that matter, we haven’t explicitly defined “the Creature”, either.  I don’t think we need to reinvent English.

card:

10-03-2017 00:26:29 UTC

Does this mean that the Creature can technically move to a foggy location, until this proposal passes?

pokes:

10-03-2017 01:25:58 UTC

Which Location named “Foggy Location” can’t we move to?

Matt:

10-03-2017 05:28:26 UTC

@card, now technically, yes, unless we adhere to the “plain English” interpretation. Let’s define things concretely.

card:

10-03-2017 09:33:12 UTC

Wouldn’t this proposal be a better fit in the call for judgement category?
The word move is used in the definition of travel—http://www.dictionary.com/browse/travel?s=t second one. Go is used in the first definition. Go is also defined with the word move http://www.dictionary.com/browse/to—go?s=t

Madrid:

10-03-2017 10:39:01 UTC

Going by the justifications posted, this proposal either:

- Does nothing (because the travel/move wording doesn’t matter) - Or it fixes something major (because travel=/=moving).

Why wouldn’t I for this.

Kevan: he/him

10-03-2017 11:00:28 UTC

imperial

derrick: he/him

10-03-2017 14:38:21 UTC

imperial

card:

10-03-2017 19:48:49 UTC

for

pokes:

10-03-2017 21:09:57 UTC

for

Sphinx:

10-03-2017 21:50:22 UTC

imperial

Viv:

10-03-2017 22:58:21 UTC

for ach well