On 9/12/22 22:31, secretsnail9 via agora-discussion wrote: > On Sep 12, 2022, at 9:12 PM, Jason Cobb via agora-discussion > <agora-discussion@agoranomic.org> wrote: >> On 9/12/22 20:31, secretsnail9 via agora-business wrote: >>> There's also the clause in Rule 2630 "The Administrative State": "An >>> officer SHALL NOT violate eir office's administrative regulations in the >>> discharge of eir office." It's not too relevant to this case, but there may >>> be an issue when violating a regulation, as violations are a regulated >>> action that can be performed only using the methods explicitly specified in >>> the Rules (not regulations) for performing the given action. Rule 2545 >>> (Auctions) handles this nicely: "SHALL NOT violate requirements that >>> auction's method that are clearly intended to be punishable as rules >>> violations", the typo aside. >> >> SHALL (NOT)s do not create regulated actions anymore. >> >> -- >> Jason Cobb >> >> Arbitor, Assessor, Rulekeepor, Stonemason >> > But breaking a SHALL (NOT) is a regulated action, a violation, yes? After > all, if it wasn't, we would be proscribing an unregulated action. I'm > confused what you mean. > > -- > secretsnail
No. It's perfectly fine to proscribe unregulated actions. For instance, lying to the public forum is both unregulated and proscribed, and pledges can proscribe non-game actions. -- Jason Cobb Arbitor, Assessor, Rulekeepor, Stonemason