On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 9:22 AM, ais523 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think it can be argued that, although it's certainly possible to make > a contract in a-d (I've made an Agoran contract over IRC before, for > instance), the context of that particular pledge seems to show that it > might not necessarily be true. When Sgeo said that e agreed, it seemed > likely that e was lying; there is no rule against lying in a-d, > therefore it does not seem to me necessarily true that e was making the > offer in the first place. (I would consider it to be a valid contract if > not for the context it was in.)
The fact that lying outside of the PF isn't forbidden doesn't mean we should assume that any communication outside of the PF might be untruthful. Unfortunately, Rule 1742 requires that players making an agreement intend that it be binding under the rules. There's no way to know what Sgeo's intent was at the time e posted that message, although it can probably be argued that unless a contract explicitly says it's binding under the rules of Agora, we can't know that each party intended for it to be. I suspect that it would be a good idea to require pledges to be public, although that wouldn't fix all of the issues here.
