DIS: Re: BUS: Let's make timing scams more interesting

2013-07-17 Thread Tanner Swett
On Jul 16, 2013, at 3:59 PM, Alex Smith wrote: > It's also not equivalent to just moving the > deadline 1 hour earlier; because silence can be effectively chained by > an alliance of players, it's not clear how many hours before the > deadline that a timing scam should be carried out. That's not h

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Let's make timing scams more interesting

2013-07-16 Thread Alex Smith
On Tue, 2013-07-16 at 23:31 +0200, Ørjan Johansen wrote: > I note that this can just as well be used by the perpretators of a > votebomb to allow them to make it early, and then silence any > countermeasures until the end of the voting period. Yeah, thus my comments about the proper timing being

DIS: Re: BUS: Let's make timing scams more interesting

2013-07-16 Thread Ørjan Johansen
On Tue, 16 Jul 2013, Alex Smith wrote: More Interesting Timing Scams (AI 3, Proposal Fee Y20) Add a new paragraph to rule 478, just before its last paragraph: {{{ As an exception to the rest of this rule, no message is a public message if, during the 1-hour period that ends when that messag