On Sun, 7 Dec 2008, Warrigal wrote: > On Sun, Dec 7, 2008 at 1:24 AM, Charles Schaefer > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> 2008/12/6, comex <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >>> On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 10:20 AM, Warrigal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>>> If I can, I join the above contract. >>>> I imagine this is comparable to saying "If I am wearing a hat, I >>>> deregister." Since we (I, at least) don't actually know if you were >>>> born after February 14, 1984, this fails. >> >> Is there a rule that says that? Or precedent from a CFJ? > > Actually, the rules don't allow conditional actions at all; the way to > deregister is by saying "I deregister", not by saying "If the sky is > blue, I deregister". We at Agora have a tradition of bending the rules > until they look like what people have already been doing, however, so > we've decided that "If the sky is blue, I deregister" is actually a > synonym of "I deregister". We've allowed ourselves lots of room in > interpretation. Things like this are why it's so easy to cause Agora > to fall into an ambiguous state: > > If the infinite product of (1/10)^(1/2) * (1/10^2)^(1/2^2) * > (1/10^3)^(1/2^3) * . . . = 1/100, I transfer 1 coin from myself to > ehird.
Actually, this last example is discarded specifically in CFJ 1460. If a conditional isn't reasonably resolvable, it's thrown out. Otherwise it generally works. If a conditional relies on the word of another player (e.g. as to eir age) and would be difficult to independently verify, that's a little different. Given that it's a criminal matter to mislead, it's (probably) our custom, even for inquiry cases, to go by the word of the player unless they can be found to be wrong beyond a reasonable doubt. -Goethe
