On October 3 at 13:39 UTC, Benbot² sent this message:
> This email declares (soon to be) player Benbot² intention to join the game
> under Alias Benbot²
Other players questioned its meaning:
On 2021-10-04 15:19, Sarah S. via agora-business wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 4, 2021 at 12:46 AM ais523 via agora-business <
> agora-business@agoranomic.org> wrote:
>
> > On Sun, 2021-10-03 at 09:39 -0400, BenjaminFrancis Rodriguez via agora-
> > business wrote:
> > > This email declares (soon to be) player Benbot² intention to join the
> > > game under Alias Benbot²
> >
> > By the "(soon to be)", do you mean that you're joining immediately and
> > are referring to the time immediately after your message? Or do you
> > mean that you're planning to join in, e.g., a few days from now?
> >
> > --
> > ais523
> >
> >
> Seems ambiguous. I CFJ: Benbot is a player.
This text from Rule 869 governs registration:
An Unregistered person CAN (unless explicitly forbidden or
prevented by the rules) register by publishing a message that
indicates reasonably clearly and reasonably unambiguously that e
intends to become a player at that time. No person can be a player
if e is part of another player or another player is part of em.
Benbot²'s message quite explicitly states eir intention to join the game,
meaning to become a player.
The text "(soon to be)" indicates e does not consider emself a player at the
time the message was sent. This is not relevant to the above-quoted section of
Rule 869, unless one wants to claim that "(soon to be)" implies Benbot² is (a)
not in fact intending to register with this message, or (b) not at this time.
(a) is too much of a stretch. The intention to join the game is quite explicit,
leaving me to conclude that "(soon to be)" only expresses Benbot²'s own opinion
that, in the ordinary course of registration, a player is not registered at the
exact time the message is sent.
(b) doesn't make much sense either. If Benbot²'s intended time of registration
is not now, then when?
Benbot² was reasonably clear and unambiguous in eir message. I judge CFJ 3932
TRUE.
Note: this differs from CFJ 3789, in which Alexis's possible registration
message had a clear and consistent alternative interpretation.
--
Falsifian
