I award myself Blue Glitter. (I judged CFJ 3925 recently, already have
a Blue Ribbon, and have not tried to claim Blue Glitter since.)
CFJ: The Tailor SHALL and CAN grant me coins as a consequence of my
Blue Glitter award earlier in this message.
Evidence: this message, and the following quote from the online FLR:
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Rule 2602/7 (Power=1)
Glitter
"Each type of Ribbon has a corresponding type of Glitter with
the
same name. A player qualifies for a type of Glitter when e
qualifies for the same type of Ribbon while already owning
such a
Ribbon. If a player has not been awarded that type of Ribbon
or e
corresponding type of Glitter since e last earned or came to
qualify for that type of Ribbon, and has not been so awarded
five
or more times within the past 24 hours, any player CAN award em
that type of Glitter by announcement. When a player gains a type
of Glitter, the Tailor SHALL in an officially timely fashion and
CAN once by announcement award em N/2 boatloads of coins rounded
up, where N is the number of players that did not own the
corresponding type of Ribbon at the time of the award. The
amount
payable for each type of Glitter is tracked in the Tailor's
weekly report.
Rule 2577/6 (Power=3), exerpt
Asset Actions
For an entity to gain (historical syn. earn) an asset is for
that
asset to be created in that entity's possession. To grant an
entity an asset is to create it in eir possession.
}}}
Arguments:
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The version of Rule 2602 on the online FLR is a mess. In addition to an
unmatched double quote, it starts by defining the circumstances in
which a player "qualifies" for glitter, but then probably ignores them
(it may be that an oddly placed "that" is trying to point to this
definition). It then continues by saying that a player can be "awarded"
glitter if they haven't had glitter for a redundant earning of a
Ribbon. That's the action I took in the message where I called this
CFJ.
However, the Tailor's coin reward is based on "gaining" glitter. What
relationship does this have to being awarded it? The term "award" is
normally used for Ribbons and for Patent Titles, whereas "gain" is
typically used for assets; neither a Ribbon nor a Patent Title is an
asset. "Gain" is mentioned in the definition of the White Ribbon,
though. Rule 2577 mentions "gain" as a historical synonym for "earn",
which doesn't really help matters much (it may make the White Ribbon's
definition easier to understand, but maybe not); also, defining
something as a historical synonym doesn't necessarily imply that the
synonym exists now.
If being "awarded" glitter causes you to "gain" it, then is the glitter
itself some sort of tracked object? Perhaps an asset, or a Patent
Title? Or is this meant as some sort of hypothetical condition that
rules can look at (in which case there's no obvious reason to link
"gain" to "award"?).
It also seems possible that there's been a Rulekeepor error related to
the rule in question, and the online FLR doesn't match the actual
ruleset; I haven't looked into this.
}}}
