This is the important Rule I’m interpreting: “(Outsiders have their Location value set to ‘Outside’, and are not considered to be in any room.)”

That’s the only way specified by the Ruleset for someone to be Outside. Thus, anyone Outside must be an Outsider (which is intuitive).

There is nothing stating that Insiders cannot be Outside. Insiders cannot choose to move outside, but outsiders can call insiders outside.

Additionally, no rule states that outside contestants may be inside.

I’m sort of taking the opposite side of how my only other DoV failed. The second applicable Rule is “The Ruleset and Gamestate can only be altered in manners specified by the Ruleset.”

No Rule states that Insiders may be Outside. There is a Rule that says Outsiders may be Outside. Since these people were Outside, I logically conclude that they must be Outsiders.

No rule states that Outside players must be Outsiders. Since these people did not become Out in accordance with the rules, I logically conclude that they must be Insiders.

Again, let’s focus this on your DoV

Whatever the logic and game plan was I find it interesting that Rodlen does not favor your DoV.

Apparently he does not agree with the logic behind it. I stopped making plans with the DDA when you said we were going nonpartisan, DK, so nobody knew about this beforehand.

should we just start a meta since things have gotten so mucked up? and yes ik metas aren’t defined.

This…doesn’t work.

You stated it yourself. “The Ruleset and Gamestate can only be altered in manners specified by the Ruleset.”

I don’t see anything saying “All players who are Outside are Outsiders.”

Agreed with Rodlen.

I’ve conceded that they didn’t become Outsiders. However, by Rule, they are no longer Insiders: “Each Insider occupies a single room.”

Since “Outside” is not a room, they are not insiders. My DoV works so long as they are not Insiders.

However, this was a clear case where the Ruleset is broken. Public opinion seems to be favoring the “ignore the problem” approach rather than the “Qwaz is correct due to paradox” approach. Both are fine, I’d just been hoping more Contestants would agree with me.  : p

That was me, btw. Wak shouldn’t have been logged on this computer now, but I got distracted watching Star Trek. Really good episode too, the one where Worf keeps going through alternate realities.

Worforforforforforforf

What happened? Where’s Worf?

“I became an Insider, because 2/3 Insiders Supported me.”

You can’t perform this action.  You need an Insider to perform it, as per Rule 2.1.1

Heh, lately Qwaz has been getting on us for not following the rules and yet he faltered on that just abit

And actually the rule: “Each Insider occupies a single room.”  seems to imply that you can’t put an Insider outside.  Not that insiders become outsiders after you move outside.

We’ve been over this, Amni, but some people feel that that just because there is precedent for ‘if an action could render a gamestate value illegal that action cannot be taken’, there is no precedent for following precedent and thus you can still move insiders outside. Of these, I think only Qwaz and Wak have claimed this makes them outsiders.

I don’t claim they’re Outsiders, I just see that, via Rules, there is a definition where they are not Insiders. The Rule I used was more specific, so by that precedent I was able to take them Outside.

Clucky, I’m trying to see where you’re coming from, but I’m not sure exactly what precedent you’re referring to that applies here. Do you mean the same thing about numbers from the DoV post?

Clucky is saying that just as you cannot make numbered values illegal, you cannot make non-numbered values illegal.

So, it is the same thing as in the DoV. I had not considered that part of the Glossary when making my DoV (honestly, I never check over the Glossary unless I’m mighty confused), but I can see how that section is intended to avoid confusion. I think this case is a bit more complicated than that, in that a specific Rule might be construed as overriding the general Rule, but it isn’t clearly governed by our Ruleset either way.

After this dynasty, we should create a rule stating that “If an action would cause a game-state value to be illegal, it cannot be taken.”