On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 4:49 PM, Kerim Aydin <[email protected]> wrote: > From my hazy memory, "4 days" was found in an 2002-2003 era judgement to > be the shortest time you would reasonably expect someone to respond to > something, on the grounds of "you should be able to leave Agora for a > weekend at the very least." (I remember the 'weekend' part as part of > the argument).
I tried searching for 'weekend' in list archives (Nov 2002-) but only found the following message from 2004: > We Object. > > The language is a wee bit confusing, but more importantly, 48 hours is > a very short period of time. Especially since we check most of the time > from work, and we don't work weekends. We would fail to object to this > if the time period were 72 hours instead. > > --Wes (The relevant language: If a Player has been It for 48 hours or more without break, then that Player may be penalized N Points, where N is the number of times the identity of It has changed since the last such penalty was applied, with a maximum of 10. ) Guess it must have been earlier. Oh, and there's this, dated May 27, 1995 in agora_vanyel0.tar.bz2: > I was looking at Rule 1443 for an entirely different reason when I noticed > how very holey it was. I fixed up the language so it would do what we > have been thinking it was doing, and made two additional modifications. I > changed the window for protoing from 4-14 to 3-14 days before a Proposal, > because a Proposal has almost always been protoed multiple times, and the > final proto is usually a formality, and 3 days is plenty even if one > doesn't work weekends. Also, I changed the time-of-award of the Proto > bonus to coincide with the posting of results, so as not to have an > indeterminate score between the end of the VP and the posting of results.
