On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 3:55 PM, Alex Smith <[email protected]> wrote:
> I thought it had been determined as part of game custom by now that 4
> days is exactly the length of time required to establish
> notice-to-all-players
Oh, there's one big piece of evidence that slipped my mind. For over
a year in 2011-2012, dependent actions were defined like so:
a) A person (the initiator) announced intent to perform the
action, unambiguously and clearly specifying the action and
method(s) (including the value of N for each method), at
most fourteen days earlier, and (if the action depends on
objections or notice) at least X days earlier, where X is a
number which depends on the Speed at the time of intention
as follows: Slow: 5, Normal: 4, Fast: 2.
Moreover, the clause in Rule 2138 about amending itself with consent
existed for part of that time. So in a non-scam context, everyone was
okay with sometimes considering as few as 48 hours sufficient for
public review, for both dependent actions in general and potentially
even rule changes (although the clause has never been exercised).
You could say that we're morally running Slow right now, but there was
no requirement for the Speed to reflect the actual level of activity.
IIRC, there was a period of time when it was Fast despite a relatively
low level - not as low as recently, though :(
