On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 2:59 PM, Kerim Aydin <ke...@u.washington.edu> wrote: > > Is there a reference for this? Don't remember it.
CFJs 1709 and 1753 are somewhat relevant. > It seems that we've gone full circle from the days when we wanted non- > players to be able to participate in contracts. In fact, there's > probably a set of contradictory precedents from that time (2007?) that > you might look up (I can't remember what they say). Also, something to > consider: when someone deregisters, do they have to invoke this separate > mechanism explicitly? What if they don't want to leave a contract, can > they deregister and still be considered members of Werewolves? And > where does that leave current non-Agoran Werewolf players? I think > some of these contracts were written specifically thinking that > non-players continued to be bound to contracts, didn't that happen with > ehird's obligations in the Vote Market? Etc. So I think some more > homework might be needed before all these assumptions are thrown out. According to that proto-judgement, you can still deregister normally if you want to stop being a player but continue to play, as R101 creates a separate mechanism that must be invoked explicitly. People who deregistered but continued to play Werewolves, or who joined Werewolves without being players, did not specifically indicate that they wanted to cease to play (because they didn't), and I think making R101 break the game in that way is too broad a mechanism to infer to protect a right. (ehird, by the way, is still bound by contracts despite eir recent posting, by the precedent of CFJ 1753.) > We used to have a rule that said something very similar. The rule could > be made into a precedent [in the below rule, I believe a CFJ decided > that "any role or position...duties or powers" included agreements/ > contracts]: > > Rule 1755/6 (Power=1) > No Non-Player Responsibilities > > Whenever a player is deregistered, e ceases to be a candidate, > officer, judge, or in general to occupy any role or position to > which the rules assign any duties or powers. No one who is not > registered may occupy such a role or position, unless at least > one of the rules defining the role or position explicitly > indicate it may be occupied by a nonplayer. > > Bearing a Patent Title shall not be deemed to be occupying a > role or position. > > This rule shall not act to prevent a nonplayer from registering, > calling for judgement, or otherwise doing things that nonplayers > are generally able to do. Interesting, but I think it's too much to infer from precedent that deregistration-by-announcement always causes players to stop playing. > [ps. I just grepped for that in an old ruleset, good thing it was > there! :) ] :p
