On Sun, Dec 10, 2017, 19:50 Alex Smith, <ais...@alumni.bham.ac.uk> wrote:

> On Mon, 2017-12-11 at 00:17 +0000, Aris Merchant wrote:
> > If this proposal is not already pending, I pend it for 1 AP.
> This works as intended even without the conditional, under our current
> rulings; you can't pay to pend a proposal if it's already pending.
>
> > If I have not already done so, I call this case for 5 shinies.
> This is the one I'm most sympathetic to out of your three examples;
> charging for CFJs does give a reason to not just unconditionally call
> it the "potentially second time".
>

Another argument in favour of making CFJ calls less fundamentally
conditional.

>
> > If Alexis has been awarded a card, I point my finger at the Referee.
> This is an abuse of conditionals IMO. You're basically saying "I accuse
> the Referee, if and only if e actually committed the crime". In other
> words, it's an attempt to get out of being held liable for a false
> accusation by making it only if it's true, and while still causing
> people to do all the work required to respond to the accusation
> (because they need to determine if it's true or not to determine
> whether you made it).
>
> --
> ais523
>

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