Rule 411

Title

Hold Status

Rule

At any time, a Player shall be in one of two mutually exclusive states: Active or On Hold. A Player is Active unless otherwise stated or implied by the rules.

A player On Hold may not take, or be required to take, any game actions unless those actions are specifically permitted to or required of players On Hold. This rule takes precedence over any mutable rule which specifies the actions permitted to or required of players in general.

A player may voluntarily enter On Hold status by sending a message to that effect to the public forum, provided that the player holds no Offices.

A player On Hold may voluntarily return to Active status by sending a message to that effect to the public forum, provided that at least 72 hours have elapsed since the player entered On Hold status, and the player's return to Active status breaks no other rules.

Comments

Motivation: This concept worked pretty well at Agora. It allows players to take a temporary leave of absence from the game.

Proposer

Jim Shea

Date

submitted Thu, 9 Jun 94 17:50:01 CDT

distributed Thu Jun 9 PDT


Voting record

Bill		: AGAINST
Ronald		: FOR
Michael		: FOR
Jim		: FOR
Malcolm		: FOR
P.		: Vote for P. Adelvice for Proposal 121 is FOR.

passes 5-1

[Speaker's Note: I recieved the preceeding vote from P, and replied
back to ask for clarification.  I received none.  Since this was the
only prop. at the time which ended in a "1", and since this appears to
be a typing error, I believe that this is a proper vote.  However, I
wish that he had bothered to take a few seconds to remove the
ambiguity.]

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