On Thu, Sep 30, 2021 at 9:14 AM Kerim Aydin via agora-business < agora-business@agoranomic.org> wrote:
> > CFJ: If R. Lee registers in October and doesn't publish a plan to flip > eir focus, eir focus would be flipped to Legislation on Nov 1. > > > Arguments: > > R. Lee planned to flip eir focus on 18-Sept[1], while eir focus was > Compliance[2]. E later deregistered[3], so e currently doesn't have a > focus. I assume that if e re-registers, eir focus would be default > (unfocused), though that could be in question[4]. > > Rule 2638/0 reads in part: > > An active player CAN Plan to Flip eir own Ministry Focus, > specifying any valid value for eir Ministry Focus, by > announcement. At the beginning of a month, every active player's > Ministry Focus is set to the value e mostly recently specified by > Planning to Flip. > > The way that reads, it looks like an interim deregistration would not > interrupt this plan? But not sure. A counterargument is that e plans to > flip eir focus, but eir focus is then gone (and reset to default when e > comes back), so if e has no focus, eir "plan" is set to the "default" of > "no plan". > > [1] > > https://mailman.agoranomic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/private/agora-business/2021-September/047564.html > > [2] > > https://mailman.agoranomic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/private/agora-official/2021-September/015270.html > > [3] > > https://mailman.agoranomic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/private/agora-business/2021-September/047577.html > > [4] > Rule 2162/14 reads in part: > if an > action or set of actions would cause the value of an instance of > that type of switch to become indeterminate, that instance instead > takes on its last determinate and possible value, if any, > otherwise it takes on its default value. > If an instance of a player switch is in a non-default value and the player > deregisters (losing the switch instance) and re-registers (gaining a > switch instance), it depends on whether that is considered the "same" > instance as the old one - which would put it back to its previous > pre-deregistration value - or a new instance, which would be created at > default. I think custom/precedent is "new" but not sure about that. > > > > > Fun. I register and claim a welcome package (I can do this within 30 days of my deregistration because of the way I deregistered, although only once). -- R. Lee
