Thursday, July 29, 2010

Call for Judgment: Wait, was this legal?

Not a CfJ.  To mark this as illegal, unfortunately, I have to close off comments.
-Hix

Adminned at 29 Jul 2010 11:45:16 UTC

I was reading through the dynastic rules again and noticed that a clause I thought was was present was missing. In Kevan’s enacted proposal “Crime and Treason” (http://blognomic.com/archive/crime_and_treason/), the third part of his proposal changes the following clause:

In the Rule “Information Clearance”, replace “No Citizen may Author a Proposal that Creates, Modifies, or Repeals a Dynastic Rule with a clearance higher than their own.” with:-

If there is a way in which a pending Proposal could - if enacted - create, modify or repeal a Dynastic Rule whose Clearance Level is higher than the Clearance Level of the Citizen who submitted the Proposal, then that Proposal is Treasonous.

At the time of submission, Kevan was a Citizen with RED clearance, while the clause that he attempted to replace was an ULTRAVIOLET clause. It is my belief that Kevan was in violation of this very clause by authoring this proposal, and that therefore said proposal was illegal. Should we revert just that previous clause and leave everything else from Kevan’s proposal as enacted, or retcon the entire proposal?

Comments

Kevan: he/him

29-07-2010 17:20:08 UTC

Are you arguing that “No Citizen may Author a Proposal” means “no Citizen may be the Author of a Proposal” rather than “no Citizen may take the action of Authoring a Proposal”?

If you’re not, the “No Citizen may Author a Proposal” rule didn’t yet exist when I made my proposal, it was still in the queue. (The rule came in at 28 Jul 2010 15:42:10, I’d already made my proposal at 28 Jul 2010 09:07:42.) I just wrote my proposal knowing that the rule would exist.

Hix:

29-07-2010 17:28:39 UTC

This is not a valid Call for Judgment, as the post does not describe what measures shall be taken to resolve the issue.

lilomar:

29-07-2010 18:21:18 UTC

Hix, is it a CFJ? It just looks like a regular post to me. (Asking because there is a possibility I messed up how CFJs work when I was changing the page formatting.)

lilomar:

29-07-2010 18:25:14 UTC

Ah, I see from the revision history that Citizen Hix-R has (treasonously!) changed the Category of this post, in violation of rule 1.7. Reverting.

Then, since this CFJ has no effect on gamestate, Failing per the last sentence of rule 1.6.