Peekee wrote: >There is probably a case from previous CFJs that multiple people can >act as one player.
There was one case very early on where two humans (well, human as far as we know) acted cooperatively as a single player. There were no strict definitions in place at the time. Today we would insist that each individual is a person, and the combination is not a person, but the two could form a partnership. >OTOH can one person act as multiple players. It is not permitted. Each person is either a player or not; e cannot be more than one player. Claiming to register when one is already a player is illegal under the truthfulness rule; you duck that due to not being a player at the time. > Is there any way of >telling so, if a person really wants to kick up some dirt. No, if they want to hide it. It's been done before: Maud operated an avatar Annabel, at one point being apparently registered as two separate players. There's a lot of bad feeling about it. I think this sort of cheating is seen as particularly bad precisely because it is difficult for us to tell. It is an area where we are unusually reliant on the honesty of individual players, and violating that implicit trust is a meta-game wrongness. >particular where does this leave rules such as 30 re-registration and >exile? Do they have any real use? They work on people who honestly want to play the game. If we were faced with sock puppets we'd probably enact new rules to deal with them. > (I think there is CFJ evidence that Jon is a person already) CFJ 1700. Murphy wants to appeal it. -zefram
