BlogNomic: The First Dynasty of Desertfrog

Typo correction is one of the few things in the core rules that actually scares me.  The last thing we need is some newbie trying to ‘correct’ some typoed text to a dictatorship.

per Bucky.

per Bucky. Why let non-admins do this and not pass proposals? I really don’t see the benefit in letting non-admins do this, just opens the door for a lot of trouble.

We seem to be entering a new age of typos at the moment (is this an artefact of people playing from mobile devices?), and how we handle them is definitely too hazy - if a rule says that a player can take an action to “recieve 1 point”, is that a null action until someone fixes the typo? If it is, then admins have a small but unreasonable advantage here.

If we’re scared of silly newbie scams, we can define “typo” much more strictly in the appendix and reference that definition in Rule 1.1.

I guess I’d argue that its not a null action. Its a typo in the ruleset, fixing the typo doesn’t change the nullness of the action, it just makes the ruleset cleaner.

The dividing line I’ve always used (which Agora explicitly mentions in its ruleset) is an ambiguity in meaning - whether there is any reasonable way to interpret the text taken literally, at a relatively low level.  “Recieve” creates no ambiguity; “repel” is borderline, but probably ambiguous enough to fail.  This is actually fairly different from the “obvious spelling mistake” test: “repel” is clearly a mistake, reading at a high level, and I believe the author could have legally corrected it before it got enacted… in other ways, it’s a narrower test, since text that looks like a spelling mistake but actually isn’t (considering its actual history) couldn’t be corrected.

per Bucky. I’m actually against free typo correction; we have proposals for that.

Hi, BobTHJ.  You need to become unidle before you can vote.

I don’t think that’s true any more omd. His vote will become valid when he unidles, I think.

Well, he’s only got seven hours to unidle if he wants his vote to actually count.

Time to find me some “typos”...

I requested to be unidled in a different thread, but I repeat my request here: please unidle me!

Per others.

Bob: you’re unidled now.

ty :)

per Bucky. We can’t trust people to correct a “small mistake”. They could “correct” the whole proposal for all we know! So, no.

CoV per Kevan.