(we should also probably fix both the ‘bury comments in old posts for tactical purposes’ scam and also probably make it so that the idle timeout starts when you go idle so people don’t need to track down when the request was made. but those aren’t as pressing as realizing that tons of players may have been illegally idled/some of us may have been illegally unidled)

Exactly what is this for?

The rule says “References to a “day” as an entity rather than as a duration (e.g. “Sunday”, “The day after performing this action”, or “August 2nd”), unless otherwise stated, refer to a day beginning at and including 00:00:00 UTC, ending when the next day begins.”

Therefore, it doesn’t apply to references to a “day” as a duration, like it’s used here. I agree that your wording would lead to breakage (among other things, it would require waiting until midnight before unidling anyone, ever, throughout BlogNomic history, which means that a huge number of proposals/CFJs that should have passed didn’t, and thus that the core rules probably look different from how we think they do, and thus that this CFJ probably wouldn’t fix thee issue if it actually existed).

I’m planning to vote FOR regardless, on the basis that it’s correct to vote FOR on CFJs that don’t do anything in order to give other people more certainty about the gamestate. But this doesn’t do anything.

(If people are concerned that this bug might exist, the correct fix is to place only FOR votes on the CFJ, and let it time out before enacting it, to be certain that it is indeed legally enactable at the time we enact it.)

I also note that Clucky naturally assumed the duration interpretation in the edit comment of his wiki edit at 22:28, 30 July 2021. So I don’t think Clucky actually believes there’s an issue here either (or if he does, he misread the rule in question and the misreading caused him to change his mind).

Ah, this is out of edit window now.

@raven read the flavor text that explains exactly what happened.

ok