Tag: Immutable

Whatever is not prohibited or regulated by a rule is permitted and unregulated, with the sole exception of changing the rules, which is permitted only when a rule or set of rules explicitly or implicitly permits it.

References to specific persons in a rule, including but not limited to references via legal name, username, display name, or commonly-used nickname, are considered to be references to the person or persons being referred to at the time the text containing said reference was proposed unless the rule explicitly states otherwise. A person that is…

All actions, including voting, endorsing, rule-change proposals, and public declarations, must occur in the locations designated for them. Any action that does not occur in said action’s publicly-designated location is not considered a valid action.

Server moderators regulate the server and the game, regulate the components of the server and the game, and determine the state of the game. The instantiator of this instance of the game selects the initial set of server moderators upon the game’s commencement. Server moderators can, by majority decision: Permanently ban and unban persons from…

A player’s vote must be unambiguous. A vote that would be ambiguous is not considered to be a vote. Additional rules may be made to clarify what constitutes ambiguity.

Rules can make the following changes to the ruleset: Change their own body Repeal themselves Define additional rule properties along with their default values Rules may not make any other changes to the ruleset, nor change the interpretations of other rules, unless such a change is via the adoption of a rule-change. Rules that clarify…

The game is ossified if both of the following conditions are true: It is impossible to change the rules of the game The game has either not ended or is not set to end at any specific time If, but for this rule, the net effect of a rule would cause the game to be…

A player is a person formally taking part in the game. The server moderators select the initial set of players upon the game’s commencement. Rules that facilitate other persons joining the game as new players are permitted. Persons may not act as multiple players at once, nor may a player be composed of multiple persons.…

In a conflict between rules, the conflict shall be resolved by performing the following comparisons in the sequence written in this rule until the conflict is resolved: In a conflict between a mutable and an immutable rule, the immutable rule takes precedence and the conflicting section of the mutable rule has no effect; otherwise, If…

Rule-changes that modify an immutable rule’s property, including mutability, are adopted if and only if the vote is unanimous among the voters. Rule-changes that transmute a mutable rule to an immutable rule are adopted if and only if the vote is unanimous among the voters.