Proposal: Potato Hole
I humbly submit that the rule 23 - Hot Potato, contains a potentially worrying loophole.
The loophole involves the regulation of "official posts". According to the rules, a Hot Potato post is an "official post". Rule 7 - Gamestate Tracking states that an official post can be edited after it is posted, as long as there are no comments attached to it. This is a sensible "commit" mechanism for most of our official posts, which involve voting or other types of commenting to have an affect.
However, there is no such comment mechanism in place for Hot Potatoes. Technically, any of the previous "versions" of an active Hot Potato may be altered, even if they have already been "passed" several times since, as long as the old version of the Hot Potato post has no comments. This has the potential to cause calamitous confusion, if wielded for nefarious purposes.
If this proposal passes, the following text will be appended to rule 23:
While we're at it, I realize that the stock market rule also has this slight problem. So of this proposal passes, the following text will be appended to rule 22:
Passed 10-0, reached quorum. Enacted by Excalabur, 20th July at 21:19.
The loophole involves the regulation of "official posts". According to the rules, a Hot Potato post is an "official post". Rule 7 - Gamestate Tracking states that an official post can be edited after it is posted, as long as there are no comments attached to it. This is a sensible "commit" mechanism for most of our official posts, which involve voting or other types of commenting to have an affect.
However, there is no such comment mechanism in place for Hot Potatoes. Technically, any of the previous "versions" of an active Hot Potato may be altered, even if they have already been "passed" several times since, as long as the old version of the Hot Potato post has no comments. This has the potential to cause calamitous confusion, if wielded for nefarious purposes.
If this proposal passes, the following text will be appended to rule 23:
A Hot Potato post may not be edited if there is a newer version of that Hot Potato in play. This paragraph of this rule is enforced under The Honor System.
While we're at it, I realize that the stock market rule also has this slight problem. So of this proposal passes, the following text will be appended to rule 22:
A Stock Update post may not be edited after it is posted. This paragraph of this rule is enforced under The Honor System.
Passed 10-0, reached quorum. Enacted by Excalabur, 20th July at 21:19.
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