Was my intent discovered? My recollection was that I gave myself away; someone killed all attempts at victory by apathy in response to the Herald’s attempt. That killed mine as well, presumably by accident, so I responded with a “darn it all.” I’m unsure of any discovery before I mentioned it.
Gaelan > On May 23, 2017, at 7:53 PM, Owen Jacobson <o...@grimoire.ca> wrote: > > >> On May 22, 2017, at 9:30 PM, Gaelan Steele <g...@canishe.com> wrote: >> >> I don’t think the Pink Slip is valid. >> >> Rule 2476/0: "A Pink Slip is a type of Card that is appropriate for abuses >> of official power for personal gain. A Pink Slip CANNOT be issued unless the >> reason indicates the specific office or offices whose power was abused.” >> >> The only reason being Rulekeepor aided me in this attempt at victory is that >> I had an excuse to publish a huge message; the ability to publish huge >> amounts of text is not a power given to the Rulekeepor by the rules. I could >> have, for example, hidden the attempt to win by Apathy in a written-out >> version of my Agency scam. There was no abuse of a specific power exclusive >> to the Rulekeepor. > > The power so misused is, in fact, the power to publish that specific report. > > First, long documents that are not reports are regularly scrutinized in > detail for exactly this sort of hidden gotcha. Long non-report documents are > exceptions, and they make people take notice. It had to be a long document > whose presence would be unsurprising, and the only such documents that happen > with any regularity are reports. Those pass with much less scrutiny, under > most circumstances. (Perhaps we should be more skeptical of reports, but > that’s a separate discussion.) > > Second, a short report would have shown up your attempt fairly easily. So > would a less prose-heavy report. There aren’t many long, prose-structured > reports in the game[0], and the FLR is longer than any other report by a very > large factor. Both its length and its prose-heavy structure are uniquely > suited to hiding mid-report actions and announcements. > > Third, only the Rulekeepor can publish that report without arousing > suspicion. Had any other player published the Full Logical Ruleset to a > public forum, it would not be a report. Furthermore, it would be an action so > obviously suspicious that I doubt you would have believed you could pull it > off. > > Because your attempt likely could not have worked even as well as it did with > any other report, I believe that you were specifically abusing the > Rulekeepor’s power to publish the Full Logical Ruleset. > > Now, you’re not on trial, and this (intentionally) wasn’t part of my > investigation. I’m very interested in the outcome of the CFJ on this subject, > because I can absolutely see your point of view, as well. I’ll happily > acknowledge that my argument is weakened by the fact that your intent was > discovered the same day that you published it. By Agoran standards, that’s > already quite fast; you could well argue that you simply used a report you > had the ability to publish, and that there isn’t anything special about that > report or that office. > > -o > > [0] The Secretary’s monthly report, the Superintendent’s report, and, soon, > the Surveyor’s report are the only other prose-heavy reports I can think of.
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