I submit the following AI=3 proposal, entitled "forum reforum":
In Rule 478, replace:
Where the rules define an action that CAN be performed "by
announcement", a person performs that action by unambiguously
specifying the action and announcing that e performs it. Any
action performed by sending a message is performed at the time
date-stamped on that message.
with:
Where the rules define an action that CAN be performed "by
announcement", a person performs that action by unambiguously
specifying the action and eir identity, and announcing that e performs
it. Any action performed by sending a message is performed at the
time that message was sent to a public forum.
[Would require an unambiguous specification of identity so that "I am
a current player" sent anonymously wouldn't work. Also generalizes to
when message was sent instead of specifying the date stamp, which
follows current precedent (the "Date:" header is usually accepted as
the time an action occurred unless it's clearly lying, in which case
an appropriate Received: header is used; I believe this wording more
accurately reflects our practice, which arguably violates the letter
of the rule if we don't currently allow forged Date: headers to
control timing. At best, "time date-stamped" is ambiguous since every
message has multiple times stamped on it by various machines.)]
