Sunday, January 17, 2010

Proposal: Useful change

1-17, cannot be enacted without CoV -Darth

Adminned at 18 Jan 2010 10:56:58 UTC

* To the end of the rule “Ruleset and Gamestate”, append the following:

Upon enactment of a Proposal or Call For Judgement, the enacting admin may ignore such errors.

* After the second occurrence of the word “field” in the glossary, append “or span class”.

Comments

Darknight: he/him

17-01-2010 20:55:00 UTC

imperial

Anonyman:

17-01-2010 20:57:50 UTC

imperial

alethiophile:

17-01-2010 21:10:09 UTC

for

Klisz:

17-01-2010 21:21:48 UTC

for

Rodlen:

17-01-2010 22:39:07 UTC

for

Rodlen:

17-01-2010 22:46:46 UTC

against ...Oh right, there’s a reason we made a new flavor text field.  The span class was being used for scams too often, and we got really tired of it.

Rodlen:

17-01-2010 22:47:15 UTC

By the way, you put your flavor text in the admin field. And that was a COV.

Thrawn:

18-01-2010 00:11:47 UTC

imperial

Klisz:

18-01-2010 00:37:43 UTC

CoV against  per Rodlen.

yabbaguy:

18-01-2010 00:59:30 UTC

Hopping on the against bandwagon.

alethiophile:

18-01-2010 01:05:56 UTC

Rodlen: Why does this allow for scams using the span class?

Aquafraternally Yours:

18-01-2010 01:42:26 UTC

The first part strikes me as a little ambiguous.  “the enacting admin may ignore such errors.”  Define “ignore”.  against

Hix:

18-01-2010 01:56:00 UTC

against for reasons stated above, and because it was very annoying having to go look up in the Ruleset where these amendments were to take place (seriously, “after the second occurrence of [word]”?)

Anyway, what difference does it make if an admin ignores a typo?  Besides the literal changing of the state of a Proposal to “Enacted”, admins don’t change the gamestate upon enactment of a proposal.  The Ruleset changes the Gamestate, and the admin updates documents to reflect this change.

Excalabur:

18-01-2010 03:45:07 UTC

imperial

Qwazukee:

18-01-2010 06:48:12 UTC

against

alethiophile:

18-01-2010 06:51:35 UTC

CoV for speed against

TrumanCapote:

18-01-2010 07:36:19 UTC

imperial

Kevan: he/him

18-01-2010 11:07:22 UTC

against I assume the scam is that you can put the flavour text span class around some words, but also add further CSS styling to make it look like normal text - when the proposal enacts, those words vanish.

I’ve recently removed the “flavour text” button from the edit interface, as it was obsolete, so there’s no reason why anyone would be using the flavour text span class.

Kneuronak:

18-01-2010 12:52:00 UTC

against

Oze:

18-01-2010 16:11:08 UTC

against

Uvthenfuv:

18-01-2010 16:53:41 UTC

imperial

NoOneImportant:

18-01-2010 18:10:03 UTC

against