Proposal: No You Always
Reaches Quorum and Passes 5-0 -Larrytheturtle
Adminned at 19 Apr 2013 14:14:59 UTC
In the rule entitled “Dignity”, change
When a Noble performs an action which may be done in a Proper manner but does not do it in a Proper manner, they lose one-tenth of their Dignity, rounded up.If a Noble performs an Outrageous action, they lose half their Dignity, rounded up.
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If a Noble performed an Improper act within the past 48 hours and has not yet been Mocked for it, any Noble may Mock them for that act by reducing the offending Noble’s Dignity by one-tenth. If a Noble performed an Outrageous act within the past 48 hours and has not yet been Ridiculed for it, any Noble may Ridicule them for that act by halving the offending Noble’s Dignity.
In the rule entitled “Titles”, change
It is proper, but not required, always to address a Noble by their name, followed by their title or titles with the highest Rank, optionally also listing their other titles in descending order of Rank.
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It is Improper to mention the name of another Noble in a post or comment without appending their Title or Titles with the highest Rank, optionally also listing their other Titles in descending order of Rank.
In the rule entitled “Obtainment”, change
It is proper only to obtain Baronies Below the Dukedom corresponding to one’s Family this way.
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It is Improper to obtain a Barony that is not Below the Dukedom corresponding to one’s Family this way.
In the same rule, change
It is Proper to obtain no more than one Barony, Earldom, or Dukedom in one day.
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It is Improper to obtain a Title through the mechanisms laid out by this rule if one has already done so that day.
In the rule entitled “Casi Belli”, change every instance of “It is Proper not to” to “It is Improper to” and change “It is always Proper” to “It is never Improper”.
The current implementation of late medieval etiquette is confusing and unintuitive, and potentially dangerous if an improper act (or rather, an ‘action’, the scope of which is undefined, which could have been performed properly but wasn’t) goes unnoticed and renders later actions illegal.
I removed the rounding up of the penalties: rule 3.3.1 takes care of this by rounding down the result.
I think I caught all the references to proper actions, apart from one in “Favors”, which is in need of a rewrite anyway.
Interesting, but eh.
RaichuKFM: she/her