On Sun, 26 Nov 2017, Publius Scribonius Scholasticus wrote: > This doesn't matter here because the exact phrasing of the proposal was > that we earned it, not that we became eligible for it.
Rule 2438 doesn't use "earned" that way. We "earned" it by the proposal, which means that for the next 7 days we *qualify* to be awarded it if we don't have it already. But someone still has to do the finishing task: While a person qualifies for a type of Ribbon, any player can generally award em that type of Ribbon. A person qualifies for a type of Ribbon if e has earned that type of Ribbon within the preceding 7 days (including earlier in the same message) and has not owned that type of Ribbon within the preceding 7 days.