On Wed, 17 Aug 2016, ais523 wrote:
> On Wed, 2016-08-17 at 09:15 -0400, Benjamin Schultz wrote:
> > The Registrar's report dated 24 Jun 2016 indicates that I last
> > deregistered
> > on 28 Jan 2014. So statement 2 is also TRUE.
> >
> > OscarMeyr
> >
> > (Why am I looking for evidence on a CFJ about me???)
>
> This isn't so much a case about "did OscarMeyr deregister correctly" as
> "was OscarMeyr accidentally reregistered as a result of badly worded
> rules and reports". The crux of the case is as to whether the
> Secretary's report listed you as a player, and if so, whether that part
> of the report is self-ratifying. (If it did list you as a player in a
> self-ratifying way, then the Secretary's and Registrar's reports would
> have been alternately registering and deregistering you for a while as
> they self-ratified.)
On further review, I think due to this clause (R869):
The Rules CANNOT otherwise bind a
person to abide by any agreement without that person's willful
consent.
the state of OscarMeyr being a player (even for an instant) without
willful consent is inconsistent with the rules, therefore the ratification
would not make em a player as (R1551):
Such a modification
cannot add inconsistencies between the gamestate and the rules
Since adding a non-player switch is also inconsistent with the Rules
(R2459), there is no possible modification to the gamestate that
is not inconsistent. Therefore the ratification simply fails (R1551):
If no such modification is
possible, or multiple substantially distinct possible
modifications would be equally appropriate, the ratification
fails.
-G.
