Zefram wrote:
Ian Kelly wrote:Noting this, I find that FOR and SUPPORT are, in fact, synonyms, and I judge TRUE accordingly.I'd also like to bring up a precedent from 1997, when the Frankenstein Rule said that Frankenstein Monsters get an extra vote and that there was the Frankenstein Monster of Rulekeepor. Rulekeepor Chuck attempted to cast a vote in these terms: |GRRrrr Monster Chuck make third vote NOnoNOnoNO 3513 3513 baaad. This attempt failed on the technicality that the voting period of proposal 3513 had ended some months earlier. (E had intended to vote on proposal 3613 instead.) No one raised any objection to the form in which the attempted vote was expressed.
Also of potential interest: CFJs 1260 and 1261. Elysion privately informed Assessor t that e would use AGAINT as a synonym for FOR on a proposal. It was determined that e misrepresented eir purported votes to the other players, and that e failed to inform t of eir votes (because t could not be certain whether Elysion was deliberately using the code or accidentally typoing AGAINST, without asking for confirmation). CFJ 1217. The validity of TYHJÄ (apparently Finnish for "ABSTAIN") was questioned. The case was dismissed because it depended on the Assessor's knowledge. (This judgement was disputed, though not appealed, on the grounds that the judge should have questioned the current Assessor and judged either TRUE or FALSE on that basis.)
