Call for Judgement: The legality of the Ascension

The wording of the rule (I can't access the ruleset either, but as I recall, Cayvie's summary was more or less accurate) was "a riot must contain the word 'Riot' in bold in its title". Cayvie's proposal did not contain the word 'riot', as, linguistically, a word is both a string of letters and it's attatched meaning. The string of letters was present, but the attatched meaning was not, thus the word 'Riot' was not, in fact, present.

However, this is a very prenickity objection to make, and I think we're all agreed that it's a good time to move on to a new dynasty. Thus this CfJ is simply to establish that Cayvie's move, while skillful and cunning, was not strictly speaking legal, and while no punishment should be exacted for this admittedly petty piece of rule-brokering we should all acknowledge that no precident exists for hiding words in proposal titles.

Passed by Damanor 10-4, at 8:40 pm GMT on 28 April 2004.