Seems very unreasonable to retroactively change my action which legally set my Focus to 1 under the rules at the time. I don’t see any kind of justification for why not-yet-existent rule changes should affect past actions once they are enacted…

Normally I’d have put a clause into the proposal to correct existing values to be in line with the new rule, but I figured that calculating who should have * and who should have 1 retoractively would be an unreasonable amount of effort.

I decided to just grandfather people into having real focus rather than worrying about it.

*retroactively

If you can perform an action using a rule before the rule gets amended out from under you, it counts, even if it wouldn’t be possible under the new rules.

Habanero’s Focus set was at 18:09 and the rule changed at 19:49, so the set was legal.

(If you want to stop people doing that sort of thing, normally you have to put a sentence into the proposal that reverts any changes made using the old version of the rule. I generally only do that when the old version permits a game-breaking scam, though; minor gameplay tweaks like this don’t need a revert.)

Betteridge’s law in action.