On Mon, 27 Nov 2017, Alexis Hunt wrote: > On Sun, 26 Nov 2017 at 19:22 Kerim Aydin <ke...@u.washington.edu> wrote: > > > Well, if you read only the Rules, you'd wonder why everyone keeps doing > > things with if/then clauses, because strictly speaking there's nothing > > that allows them, and the Fora clause on "announcement" pretty much > > implies that conditionals don't work, at all (except for voting), > > because that rule states that you have to unambigiously and clearly > > state what you're doing. > > > > So in order to think conditionals work at all, you need to be observing > > something extra-rules to begin with. > > > > This is my view as well. I do not think that a conditional action is, in > any form, "clear" or "unambiguous". Honestly, I would be inclined to rule > that they don't work at all; I cannot find any precedent to either side, > however.
My memory is that there are a few out there, that amount to "if it's within a reasonable effort for the typical Agoran to resolve a conditional with information available at the time of the attempt, it works." I'll try to hunt the archive though - I'm fairly certain there's at least one case like that. Under that standard, for example, various "I transfer enough shinies to claim a reward" would fail because it takes the Treasuror's extraordinary weekly tracking effort to resolve such things. -G.
