I guess the announcer can't privately email anyone before the auction because they could clearly use such information. I would prefer a non SHA system though for reasons of agoran technical agnosticism/i don't know how to use technlogy.
On Mon, Jul 2, 2018 at 10:14 AM, Rebecca <edwardostra...@gmail.com> wrote: > very good call. > > On Mon, Jul 2, 2018 at 10:11 AM, Kerim Aydin <ke...@u.washington.edu> wrote: >> >> >> Oh, and on the flip side, better make it a crime for the announcer to >> reveal bids to anyone before the auction is over! >> >> On Sun, 1 Jul 2018, Kerim Aydin wrote: >>> On Mon, 2 Jul 2018, Rebecca wrote: >>> > Also >>> > add in a new paragraph "Rules and Contracts notwithstanding, no >>> > Announcer may ever bid on an Auction they are Announcing". >>> >>> This is a massive disadvantage: It's unfair to ask an officer to >>> completely stay out of a subgame, especially because people choose >>> offices based on subgames they're interested in. >>> >>> My suggestion would be something like: In the auction-starting >>> announcement, the announcer CAN include an SHA-512 hash of eir >>> bid. Such a bid cannot be changed and MUST be reported with the >>> auction results. >>> >>> > Failing to correctly and fully relate the results of an Auction as an >>> > Auction announcer is the Class-9 Crime of Auction Obfuscation, and >>> > Auction announcers SHALL NOT so fail". >>> >>> So, um... any honest mistake and it's a class-9 crime? >>> >>> >> > > > > -- > From V.J. Rada -- >From V.J. Rada
