Argh. I fixed a typo below. This will be the official judgment reasoning: On Feb 15, 2019, at 10:27 AM, D. Margaux <dmargaux...@gmail.com> wrote:
Judgement on this CFJ: CFJ: Prior to calling this CFJ, G. earned 5 coins for judging CFJ 3698. “Stating” is undefined in the rules, and its meaning is somewhat ambiguous. The question is whether it should be taken to be a synonym for “publishing” or “announcing,” or if instead a statement in a nonpublic forum should be considered sufficient. Adopting the latter interpretation leads to absurd results; it makes it impossible to determine what the actual gamestate is. Nevertheless, I am constrained to judge this based solely on forward reasoning, and I note that the plain language meaning of “stating” includes statements to non-public fora. G. now claims under penalty of No Faking that e made the required statement out loud privately to emself before publishing eir CFJ. I decline to take G.’s claim at face value, because I cannot independently verify it and because e could have easily made that statement in a verifiable way by posting it to a public or discussion forum. I don’t want to encourage such private statements which could make it difficult to determine what the gamestate is. There is insufficient information available to give a judgment. DISMISS. > Arguments: R2496 reads in part: > > A player CAN earn the set of assets associated with a reward > > condition exactly once in a timely fashion each time e fulfills it > > by stating how many assets e earns as a result of this action. > [...] > > * Judging a CFJ that e was assigned to without violating a time > > limit to do so: 5 coins. > There's no public requirement whatsoever for "stating". Therefore I note as > evidence, under penalty of No Faking, that immediately after submitting my > timely judgement for CFJ 3698 (and confirming that it had reached the lists) > but before beginning to compose this message, I stated out loud to myself > that I earned 5 coins for the judgement. >
