COURT GAZETTE (Arbitor's weekly report for 17 June 2018)
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Open cases (CFJs)
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3639 called by ais523 (presumably) 31 May 2018, judged TRUE by Aris
11 June 2018: "This is a CFJ."
3640 called by Aris 10 June 2018, assigned to V.J. Rada 17 June 2018:
"FAILED QUORUM was awarded a Medal of Honor."
3641 called by V.J. Rada 12 June 2018, assigned to Corona 17 June 2018:
"The four below actions are each extremely silly, and none significantly
harm my standing in the game."
(15 June 2018: Aris called a case, then retracted it)
3642 called by Aris 15 June 2018, assigned to PSS 17 June 2018:
"Proposal 8050 has been resolved."
Highest numbered case: 3642
Context/arguments/evidence are included at the bottom of this report.
Recently-delivered verdicts and implications
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(none)
Day Court Judge Recent
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Corona 3627, 3628, 3641
[02/14 02/14 06/17]
Murphy 3626, 3627, 3628
[03/01 03/01 03/01]
G. 3631, 3637, 3636
[04/20 04/30 05/04]
Gaelan 3638
[06/04]
V.J. Rada 3640
[06/17]
Weekend Court Judge Recent (generally gets half as many cases)
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ATMunn 3633
[04/29]
(These are informal designations. Requests to join/leave a given court
will be noted. Individual requests to be assigned a specific case will
generally be honored, even for non-court judges.)
Context/arguments/evidence
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*** 3639 was sent via a dice roller service:
> Comment: If this dice rolls an odd number, I call for judgement on the
> statement "This is a CFJ".
> 5
*** 3639 presumed caller ais523's arguments:
Is this a future conditional? At the time this message was
sent, the caller couldn't have known whether the CFJ would be called or
not.
As for other potential issues, I think there's fairly established
precedent that is is in fact possible to use a third-party mail service
to send an email and have it count as a public action. On the other
hand, there isn't much evidence in the quoted email as to who the
sender was. (Circumstantial evidence does make it seem likely that it
was me, though; and the action should succeed regardless of who sent
it, given that anyone can call a CFJ.)
Finally, is the "comment" field of a set of automated dice roll results
sufficient to take an action by announcement? It's part of the message
body, but may not be labelled clearly enough.
*** 3639 Judge Aris's arguments:
Can a person take an action in the comment field of a dice server message?
Not only the outcome of this CFJ, but even the very existence thereof,
depends on it.
First off, I judge this CFJ TRUE. Iff the CFJ exists, it must be true, so
that seems like a pretty safe action. Now for the interesting bit.
First off, precedent is clear that there is no future conditional,
or other difficulty arising from the fact that the caller did not by eir
own hand send the entire message, in this case. Long tradition allows users
to send messages via automated process. Particularly relevant is CFJ 1719,
which states in part
"We've always accepted messages being sent with some degree of automation
in their composition, and messages initiated by a cron job, as being
authored by the responsible person. Often it's not even possible to
tell whether these kinds of automation have been applied, so attempting
to make a distinction would be impractical and contrary to the best
interests of the game."
That CFJ goes on to rule that a web form allowing all comers to use a
player's
email is a valid way for a player to delegate their power to send messages.
Nothing nearly so extreme is present in this case. Additionally, any
argument
that the message is a future conditional rests on a misapprehension as to
the time of the message's evaluation. A message is evaluated when it is sent
via the public forum, which, according CFJ 1905, happens when most persons
who have arraigned to receive messages via the forum get it. By the time
this occurs, the conditional is resolvable from the information in the
message
itself.
The ambiguity as to the caller is far more disturbing. However, I see
nothing
in the rules that requires this information to be clear. In the absence
of such
a provision, the only case where clearly naming the sender of the message
is required is if that information forms part of the definition of the
action
(e.g. moving three right on the map). Although the caller of the CFJ matters
for the purpose of determining eligibility to judge it, among other things,
it is not so crucial as to form part of the definition of the action. A
proposal
to address this bug will be forthcoming shortly, as soon as I figure out
a way to phrase it that isn't terrible.
Remaining is the question of whether a comments field is a suitably
clear place
to take a game action. In general, marking part of a message as intended for
comments would likely negate any action purportedly taken in that section.
However, in the particular context of messages sent via dice server, it is a
well known convention that the comments field is the part of such a message
that contains free text. Not allowing messages in that area would also
be very
inconvenient. I therefore determine that for this specific purpose a
comments
field.
I rule that this CFJ exists and has been judged TRUE.
*** 3640 relevant text from Rule 2529 (Medals of Honour):
Upon the
resolution of this decision, the Herald CAN, and SHALL in a timely
fashion, award the outcome of the decision a Medal of Honour by
announcement.
The May decision's outcome was FAILED QUORUM and the Herald attempted to
so award. The June decision had no eligible players and thus couldn't be
initiated.
*** 3641 caller V.J. Rada's evidence, quoting twg:
I become a party to the contract "Sillyness by contract".
I act on behalf of V.J. Rada to perform the following actions: {
Destroy 1 apple to move V.J. Rada to (0, -1).
Destroy 1 apple to move V.J. Rada to (-1, -1).
Transfer all liquid assets from the mine at (-1, -1) to V.J. Rada.
Transfer 3 stone and 2 ore from V.J. Rada to Trigon.
}
This meets the requirement of being extremely silly because it is only
necessary due to a minor grammatical error on Trigon's part, and it
meets the requirement of not harming V.J. Rada's standing in the game
significantly because eir only loss from these actions is 2 apples
(which ey already have plenty of) and the right to transfer assets from
a preserved facility before next Friday (which ey already have enough
assets not to have much need of).
*** 3641 caller V.J. Rada's arguments:
None of them are remotely silly. Silly in an Agoran context is a
common-law term of art related to Silly proposals. Even if not, no
ordinary meaning of the word silly encompasses these game actions. And
also, even if losing two apples doesn't harm me, losing 3 stone, two
ore and 2 apples does. The actions must all be evaluated seperately,
so even if the first three actions work, the fourth should not.
Anyway, significantly should be interpreted as "not de minimis", and
any asset loss is more than a minimal effect on my standing in the
game.
*** 3642 caller Aris's arguments:
Per CFJ 1905, non-receipt of a message by those who have arraigned to
receive messages via the forum is grounds to regard actions taken
therein as invalid. My spam filter didn't eat it (I've checked, and it's
also set never to eat Agora stuff) so it probably never entered my
technical domain of control.
*** 3642 G.'s gratuitous evidence:
The email in question was delivered to my own inbox via the list
reasonably quickly after I sent it. I'm including the full headers below in
case it helps interpret anything:
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Subject: OFF: [Assessor] Resolution of Proposals 8050-8052
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I resolve the Agoran Decisions to adopt Proposals 8050-8052 as follows.
Quorum is 6 for all of these proposals.
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