On Mon, Sep 3, 2012 at 1:56 PM, Sean Hunt <[email protected]> wrote: > Proposal: Fraud (AI=2, Ordinary) > {{{ > Enact a new rule with power 1 entitled "Fraud" reading > It is ILLEGAL to attempt to perform an impossible action, including > publishing a document purporting to be an official report when it is not > one. > }}}
If I may suggest: "If a person CANNOT perform an action, and e reasonably ought to know this fact, then e SHALL NOT announce that e performs it. In particular, if a person does not hold an office and is not acting on the office's behalf, then e SHALL NOT publish a document purporting to be an official report." This version prohibits people from attempting to perform actions that others can perform, but they can't; and it does not prohibit people from attempting the impossible outside of Agora, or due to a genuine mistake. Also, as far as I can tell, the rules don't define what is and what is not a report, so this version doesn't ask. —Machiavelli
