Proposal: White Hats with Hard Hats

Create a new Rule, "|_337 5|<33|_Z", which reads:

Each Player with more than 20 Hats may, not more than once every five days, make a post to the Blog declaring that he or she uses his or her "|_337 5|<33|_Z" to change a single instance of an alphabetical character in the Ruleset to a distinct alphabetical character. The post must clearly describe what character in what Rule is changed, and to what other character; the changed character is said to be "hatxx0red", the poster is called the "hatxx0r", and the change to the character is called the "hatxx0rati0n". The hatxx0r loses 20 Hats. If the hatxx0r is an Admin, he or she should immediately change the hatxx0red character (and update Gamestate appropriately); otherwise, an Admin should do the same. All Admins lose 5 Hats if the Ruleset is not appropriately changed within 36 hours of the hatxx0r's post.

If the hatxx0rati0n causes the word or sentence it appears in to be mistakeable for a typographical error, it may be corrected like any other such error by any Admin, as per Rule 1.

No character-instance may be hatxx0red if:
* it is in any of Rules 1-10, the Glossary, or this Rule, OR
* the word it is in is "Player" or a GNDT column heading, OR
* the hatxx0rati0n would cause the Rule the character appears in to become inconsistent or incoherent, in whole or in part, OR
* the hatxx0rati0n would change the word the character appears in to a Player's name.

No Player may ever take any name which appears in the Ruleset, except for the name "n00b".

If any Player has a name which appears in the Ruleset when this Proposal passes, that Player's name is changed to "n00b" upon this Proposal's passage.

I've inserted several safeguards and corrected a couple other inclarities.

Enacted by Cayvie +10 to Satyr Eyes, +2 to Cayvie