Re: DIS: Re: BUS: [Bleach] Line-wrapping the Line-Item Veto (attn H. Rulekeepor)

2019-05-22 Thread Reuben Staley
I added the critical character to the YAML file. In this week's SLR, the error will be fixed. On 5/22/19 11:33 PM, Owen Jacobson wrote: On May 23, 2019, at 1:27 AM, Reuben Staley wrote: Well, in order for a cleaning to be valid, it must be a "correction". If there is nothing to correct, the

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: [Bleach] Line-wrapping the Line-Item Veto (attn H. Rulekeepor)

2019-05-22 Thread Owen Jacobson
On May 23, 2019, at 1:27 AM, Reuben Staley wrote: > Well, in order for a cleaning to be valid, it must be a "correction". If > there is nothing to correct, then the cleaning can nowise be effective. Rule > 2429 ("Bleach") states that "[r]eplacing a non-zero amount of whitespace with > a differ

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: [Bleach] Line-wrapping the Line-Item Veto (attn H. Rulekeepor)

2019-05-22 Thread Reuben Staley
Well, in order for a cleaning to be valid, it must be a "correction". If there is nothing to correct, then the cleaning can nowise be effective. Rule 2429 ("Bleach") states that "[r]eplacing a non-zero amount of whitespace with a different non-zero amount of whitespace is generally _insignifica

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: [Bleach] Line-wrapping the Line-Item Veto (attn H. Rulekeepor)

2019-05-22 Thread ais...@alumni.bham.ac.uk
On Thu, 2019-05-23 at 01:20 -0400, Owen Jacobson wrote: > I’m relying more heavily on rule 2221 (“Cleanliness”) for mechanism. > It provides: > > I’m only relying on rule 2429 for policy, not mechanism. I agree with > your interpretation of how it otherwise applies in isolation. > > What have I m

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: [Bleach] Line-wrapping the Line-Item Veto (attn H. Rulekeepor)

2019-05-22 Thread Owen Jacobson
I’m relying more heavily on rule 2221 (“Cleanliness”) for mechanism. It provides: > Any player CAN clean a rule without objection by specifying one or more > corrections to spelling, grammar, capitalization, formatting, and/or dialect, > or to whether a synonym or abbreviation is used in place

DIS: Re: BUS: [Bleach] Line-wrapping the Line-Item Veto (attn H. Rulekeepor)

2019-05-22 Thread Reuben Staley
You are mistaken as to how the Bleach rule works. It does not mean any player can change the spacing by way of cleaning, it means that I can format rules using whatever spacing I want, as long as I respect paragraph breaks. If the Bleach rule did work that way, then every rule would be wrapped

DIS: [Draft] Refactoring IRV

2019-05-22 Thread Owen Jacobson
Hi folks. The ruleset for Agora handwaves the definition of instant runoff voting. From rule 955 (“Determining the Will of Agora”): > For an instant runoff decision, the outcome is whichever option wins > according to the standard definition of instant runoff. I assume this was originally done

Re: DIS: Non-email public fora

2019-05-22 Thread Owen Jacobson
Hi folks! A few months ago, I posted this: On Feb 25, 2019, at 7:15 PM, Owen Jacobson wrote: > However, the use of email (and the use of email distribution lists, in > particular) is far out of favour on the internet at large. While most people > can be taught to operate mailman and how to ef

Re: DIS: the end never games

2019-05-22 Thread Kerim Aydin
On 5/21/2019 8:54 PM, ais...@alumni.bham.ac.uk wrote: I guess "things don't change unless something changes them" is a principle that isn't actually written explicitly into the rules, which goes somewhat against the Nomic spirit of "everything is stated by the rules, thus it can be modified by