On Fri, Feb 14, 2020 at 10:42 AM Timon Walshe-Grey via agora-business <agora-busin...@agoranomic.org> wrote: > > I wrote: > > I submit the following proposal: > > > > Title: π₯ππΉπΎπΈπΎπΆπ π₯ππΈπππΆππΎππ ππΈπ > > Adoption index: 1.7 > > Chamber: Justice > > Author: twg > > Co-authors: > > > > Amend Rule 591, "Delivering Judgement", by replacing each occurrence of > > "DISMISS" with "Β―\(γ)/Β―". > > > > [Very few CFJs get judged DISMISS at the moment; I figure the generation > > of mirth outweighs the slight inconvenience of having to copy-and-paste > > it from the ruleset occasionally.] > > CFJ: "Today, I submitted a proposal entitled 'Judicial Jocularity Act'". > > Arguments: > > I don't think "title" is ever explicitly defined in the rules. Is the > exact sequence of Unicode characters important? Or is it just the > English-language words made up of those characters? If I included > invisible Unicode characters in a proposal title, so that it looked like > plain ASCII but wasn't, would the answer be any different? > > (Disclaimer: This CFJ is at least 30% motivated by a desire to see how > long the subject line can get before something breaks.)
Gratuitous: The Promotorial Proposal Office opines that it would create trouble for the office if copying had to be exact; it might well result in someone running a scam where everyone thought a proposal had been distributed, but it actually hadn't because the space in the title was required to be a nonbreaking space or something.This would emphatically be against the best interests of the game. Note that a special exemption for invisible or whitespace characters wouldn't help, since people could try more complicated things with diacritics or whatever. A restriction to changes affecting display of the title would certainly help, but it still wouldn't cover things like space width or look-alike characters. All problems could be avoided by a ruling that titles are not required to be copied exactly, and that it is the gist of the text that is important. Aris Promotor of Agora Nomic
