CFJ: I violated rule 2379 (No News Is Some News) by failing to report,
at any time in the week starting 6 October 2025, that the list of noted
and infractions committed the previous week was empty.
Evidence:
Rule 2379:
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If the rules define a report as including a list, then while that
list is empty, that report includes the fact that it is empty.
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Rule 2478 (excerpt):
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The Referee's weekly report contains a list of noted and
investigated Infractions committed in the previous week.
}}}
The only Referee report I submitted for the week in question:
On Sun, 2025-10-12 at 15:36 +0100, ais523 via agora-official wrote:
> This is the Referee's weekly report.
>
>
> BLOT HOLDINGS (self-ratifying)
> =============
>
> No person has a nonzero number of Blots.
>
>
> INFRACTIONS (not self-ratifying)
> ===========
>
> No infractions were noted nor investigated last week.
>
> No infractions have been noted nor investigated so far this week.
Arguments:
The rule requires a list of noted and investigated infractions
*committed* in the previous week, whereas the report contained a list
of infractions that were *noted* or *investigated* in the previous and
current weeks.
The information in the report was sufficient to determine that no such
infractions had occurred (because if at the time of the report any
infractions had occurred during the previous week, they would have to
have been noted or investigated either during that week or during the
week of the report). On the other hand, the report didn't actually
contain a statement that a list containing the precise information that
the rule asks for would be empty; instead, it made two statements about
other lists, meaning that the required information was implicitly but
not explicitly stated.
Is that enough to comply with the requirements of rule 2379, or was the
rule technically violated? (Of course, even if it were violated, it's
by now too late to punish it.)
--
ais523
