On 4/6/26 12:12, Katherina Walshe-Grey via agora-official wrote:
> ais523 wrote:
>> 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.
> This is CFJ 4133. I assign it to Janet.
>
> Original CFJ and caller's arguments:
> https://mailman.agoranomic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/private/agora-business/2025-December/055019.html
>
> ~qenya
I judge CFJ 4133 FALSE.
Arguments:
{
Because the "list of noted and investigated Infractions committed in the
previous week" is empty and included in the Referee's weekly report,
Rule 2379 defines "the fact that [the list] is empty" as additionally
part of the Referee's weekly report.
CFJ 3798 held that "[e]ach part [of a report] must purport to contain
the full set of information that is rules-defined as being that portion
of the report". The relevant portion of the report did not purport to
contain this, as it contained no statement on either the relevant list
or whether it was empty. (CFJ 3798 further goes on to clarify that
"[e]ach part must be reasonably well-labelled", so the standard for
labelling this portion of the report is non-trivial, and a section
labelled "INFRACTIONS" but including information about infractions other
than what was requested does not suffice.)
Thus, ais523 failed to publish a complete Referee's report in the
relevant week. However, I find that, technically, the breach is of the
"SHALL" in Rule 2143 to perform an office's weekly duties, rather than
Rule 2379 itself.
CFJ 4133 judged FALSE.
}
Evidence:
{
CFJ 3798: https://agoranomic.org/cases/?3798
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Rule 2143/40 (Power=1)
Reports and Duties
For each person:
1. If any task is defined by the rules as part of that person's
weekly duties, then e SHALL perform it at least once each week.
2. If any task is defined by the rules as part of that person's
monthly duties, then e SHALL perform it at least once each month.
For each office, if any information is defined by the rules as
part of that office's weekly or monthly report, then its
officeholder SHALL maintain all such information, and eir weekly
or monthly duties respectively include publishing a document or
series of documents, labelled as that office's report (or as that
office's weekly or monthly report as appropriate), that includes
all such information.
Any information defined by the rules as part of a person's report,
without specifying which one, is part of eir weekly report.
Failure of a person to perform any weekly duty required of em
within the allotted time is the Class 1+N infraction of Weekly
Tardiness, where N is the number of times e has previously
committed the infraction in the past month.
Failure of a person to perform any monthly duty required of em
within the allotted time is the Class 3 infraction of Monthly
Tardiness.
An official duty for an office is any duty that the Rules
specifically assign to that office's holder in particular
(regardless of eir identity).
A person publishing a report SHALL do so in plain text, with
tabular data lining up properly when viewed in a monospaced font.
Publishing a report that deviates from these restrictions is the
Class 2 infraction of Making My Eyes Bleed.
A player CAN, by announcement, petition a specified person with a
specified duty to take a specific action related to that duty.
That person SHOULD publicly respond to that petition in a timely
fashion. A player CAN petition a specified non-vacant office in
the same fashion; its holder SHALL respond in the same fashion.
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Rule 2379/0 (Power=1)
No News Is Some News
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 2478/29 (Power=1.7)
Justice
An Infraction is a violation of a rule. The person who committed
an infraction is its infracter.
The Investigator for an infraction is the Referee unless e is the
infracter. Otherwise, it is the Arbitor.
The Class of an infraction is 2 unless a rule specifies a
different Class for it.
The Base of an infraction is N, where N is the number of
previously-investigated, unforgiven infractions that have been
committed by the same person in the past 30 days. The previous
notwithstanding, if the base of an infraction would be greater
than its class, the infraction's base is equal to its class.
Within 14 days of an infraction being committed, or if the
infraction has been noted in the past 60 days, the Investigator
CAN investigate the infraction by announcement, specifying a
number of blots between the Base and the Class of the infraction,
inclusive. When e does so, that many blots are created in the
possession of the infracter.
The previous notwithstanding, an Investigator CANNOT investigate
an infraction that has already been investigated or forgiven. The
Investigator of a noted, unforgiven infraction SHALL investigate
the infraction in a timely fashion after it has been noted;
failure to do so is the Class N infraction of Favoritism, where N
is equal to the Class of the noted infraction.
A player CAN, by announcement, "note" an unforgiven infraction
committed by any other player in the past 14 days, specifying the
incident and the rule it violates (or name of the Infraction if
it has one); but a player CANNOT note an infraction that has
already been investigated.
The Referee's weekly report contains a list of noted and
investigated Infractions committed in the previous week.
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}
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Janet Cobb
Assessor, Rulekeepor
