Proposal: Serving the Pie
Fewer than a quorum not voting AGAINST: failed 1 vote to 7 with 1 unresolved DEF, by Kevan.
Adminned at 03 Sep 2021 10:01:30 UTC
Add a subrule of “Communications”, named “Public Communications”:
Any public discussion comprised of plausibly-meaningful English text is not considered to be a circumvention of No Collaboration.
From Slack discussion: Arranging a secret plan through Communications that is to be activated when a public message, e.g. “pie is served”, is posted publicly, is ambiguously a “creative strateg[y] to circumvent this rule”. But it feels thematically appropriate to allow it under the watchful eye of the Ministry (so long as the public text isn’t the likes of “1d3b2e9790ea7245aa96c9b93031daed” flying around).
I agree with the premise.
Kevan: he/him
This is a bit generous, isn’t it? If the skeleton key of “plain English” can remove the “could not reasonably be privy to” restrictions, I can coordinate with you openly but unfathomably by referring to some private knowledge that I know we alone share from a previous dynasty or conversation (even a private, and legal, non-game conversation held five minutes previously).
It’s also easy to convey “1d3b2e9790ea7245aa96c9b93031daed” through plausible English if that’s somehow a thing you’d want to do - just write it out as “oh look, it’s the number one followed by the fourth letter of the alphabet followed by…”