Re: DIS: Re: BUS: CFJs 3679 and 3680 - judgements

2018-11-03 Thread Reuben Staley
How about "a player CAN object to an intent by announcement" Then, we could define Without N Objections as "if less than N players have objected" Likewise, "a player CAN support an intent by announcement" So that With N Support could be defined as "if N or more people have supported"

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: CFJs 3679 and 3680 - judgements

2018-11-03 Thread Gaelan Steele
I think we’ve had a lot of trouble with determining exactly how objecting and supporting work, because unlike many parts of the rules, they are based on some announcement having happened in the past instead of the actual state in the present. By splitting the act of having objected and the

Re: DIS: Uh-oh: CFJ ID clash

2018-11-03 Thread Kerim Aydin
Please no Sublettering - Sublettering is used for appeals in the historical record and this would mess up the archives,. Just give some new unused numbers. To not confuse archivists, put all the reassignments of ID numbers in a single email containing old and new numbers, so anyone searching

Re: DIS: Uh-oh: CFJ ID clash

2018-11-03 Thread D. Margaux
Why don’t i just take the next two unused numbers, and use them to renumber two of the duplicates. Shouldn’t affect the judgement. Sorry all. > On Nov 3, 2018, at 5:46 AM, Timon Walshe-Grey wrote: > > D. Margaux wrote: >> Fair enough. This is CFJ 3678. I assign it to Murphy. > (in response

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: [Proposal] Quick proposals

2018-11-03 Thread Timon Walshe-Grey
On Saturday, November 3, 2018 2:41 AM, Reuben Staley wrote: > * Having a Thesis pass peer-review and be granted a Degree based > on its merit: 20 shinies Apparently we call these "coins" now. -twg

DIS: Uh-oh: CFJ ID clash

2018-11-03 Thread Timon Walshe-Grey
D. Margaux wrote: > Fair enough. This is CFJ 3678. I assign it to Murphy. (in response to a long email chain that I won't reproduce here) D. Margaux wrote: > I CFJ barring twg: “If in the last 48 hours the Speaker has objected to any > announced intents to Demand Resignation, then Agora is not

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: CFJs 3679 and 3680 - judgements

2018-11-03 Thread Kerim Aydin
So, I really don't think that the core "look backwards for intent" mechanism is a problem at all, or that it needs to be fixed just because it works differently than most things. For example, in two places where the "look backwards" idea is independently implemented, it's clean and

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: 3679-80 judgements

2018-11-03 Thread Kerim Aydin
I don't think there was ever a rules-requirement to include gratuitous arguments in the case record, and don't think that term was ever in the Rules. Tracking requirements circa 2004: Upon assignment, only stuff from the Caller was required: > The Clerk of the Courts shall publish the

DIS: Re: BUS: 3679-80 judgements

2018-11-03 Thread Ørjan Johansen
On Sat, 3 Nov 2018, Reuben Staley wrote: == Judgement of CFJ 3679 == Since, per CFJ 3680, the pledge mentioned does not exist, the statement affirming the pledge's truthfulness is also INEFFECTIVE. INEFFECTIVE statements are not lies. I strongly dislike this argument. INEFFECTIVE applies to

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: 3679-80 judgements

2018-11-03 Thread Ørjan Johansen
On Sat, 3 Nov 2018, Reuben Staley wrote: You clearly understand my point, though. Since V.J. is referring to a pledge that doesn't exist, saying "the pledge above is true" just doesn't really mean anything. I wouldn't call them "lies", or "intending to mislead" because I don't see any of that

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: 3679-80 judgements

2018-11-03 Thread Kerim Aydin
It was in use well before my time here, but it always brought to mind both the "free" and "unasked for" senses for me. Then I just googled and found this from the 1828 Webster's dictionary (so archaic?): 2. Asserted or taken without proof; as a gratuitous argument or affirmation.

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: 3679-80 judgements

2018-11-03 Thread ais...@alumni.bham.ac.uk
On Sat, 2018-11-03 at 16:27 -0400, D. Margaux wrote: > I’ve been wondering why we call them “gratuitous” arguments. I would > have thought that a “gratuitous” argument is one that is unwarranted, > excessive, or improper, or at least one that wouldn’t change the > outcome of the question under

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: 3679-80 judgements

2018-11-03 Thread Ørjan Johansen
Something didn't feel right about my last message... I just realized that rule 2450 does _not_ define what a pledge is - it cannot, because then it would need to provide a mechanism for making them, which it clearly doesn't. So it presumably defers to the common sense definition, which means

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: 3679-80 judgements

2018-11-03 Thread Timon Walshe-Grey
That's interesting. If I were asked to define "gratuitous" outside of an Agoran consent I would say "given freely" was the primary meaning, and I would only think of "unwarranted" later if at all. Perhaps it's dialectal? Are you somewhere in the US? (Brit here.) In direct answer to your

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: 3679-80 judgements

2018-11-03 Thread Timon Walshe-Grey
On Saturday, November 3, 2018 8:33 PM, Timon Walshe-Grey wrote: > outside of an Agoran consent I meant, of course, "outside of an Agoran context". -twg

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: 3679-80 judgements

2018-11-03 Thread D. Margaux
I’ve been wondering why we call them “gratuitous” arguments. I would have thought that a “gratuitous” argument is one that is unwarranted, excessive, or improper, or at least one that wouldn’t change the outcome of the question under consideration. “Gratuitous” has a secondary meaning of “free

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: 3679-80 judgements

2018-11-03 Thread Reuben Staley
You clearly understand my point, though. Since V.J. is referring to a pledge that doesn't exist, saying "the pledge above is true" just doesn't really mean anything. I wouldn't call them "lies", or "intending to mislead" because I don't see any of that in there. If you want me to change the

DIS: Re: BUS: 3679-80 judgements

2018-11-03 Thread ATMunn
You missed my gratuitous arguments, but you ended up with the same conclusion so whatever. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ On 11/3/2018 3:22 AM, Reuben Staley wrote: == Context message == 1 Nov 2018, V.J. Rada: > I pledge that I am indeed a 26-year-old woman named Jenny Johnson. > > The pledge I made above is

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: 3679-80 judgements

2018-11-03 Thread Gaelan Steele
For what it’s worth, I’m from the US (near Seattle—hi G!) and I only knew of the “un-called for” definition, and was similarly confused. Gaelan > On Nov 3, 2018, at 1:33 PM, Timon Walshe-Grey wrote: > > Perhaps it's dialectal? Are you somewhere in the US? (Brit here.)