On Fri, 3 Apr 2009, Geoffrey Spear wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 1:04 PM, Ed Murphy <emurph...@socal.rr.com> wrote:
>> coppro's caste flips on or about Wed, 01 Apr 2009 22:08:13 -0600
>> were illegal.
>
> I judge TRUE. I accept caller's argument that the holder of the Grand
> Poobah office is only obligated, and thus only allowed, to correct
> changes e made emself. Thus, even if Goethe succeeded in multiple
> caste flips (which I don't believe e did, but that's a matter for the
> appeal in the revelant CFJ), coppro would not be responsible for
> fixing them through other caste flips.
I tried to have some reasonably decent fail conditions. I think, accepting
your argument, that I completed pieces of at least one caste rotation
procedure (procedure A), involving multiple caste flips.
Here's a summary, assuming you agree with Wooble's Caller's arguments in
the appealed CFJ (I accept that they are generally reasonable and will
probably hold up -- and why am I having flashbacks to Cards while writing
this?)
If you take the view that any caste flip that would have been illegal for
the Grand Poobah was IMPOSSIBLE for me as a deputy, I still made several
legal changes as part of a single "promotion procedure A" that I deputized
to perform:
Starting conditions:
Alpha: [none]
Beta: Billy Pilgrim
Gamma: j, OscarMeyr, Pavitra, Taral, woggle, Wooble
Delta: cmealerjr, Murphy, root
Epsilon: BobTHJ, comex, coppro, Craig, Dvorak Herring, ehird, Elysion,
harblcat, pikhq, Schrodinger's Cat, Sgeo, Siege, Sir Toby,
Spitemaster, Tiger, w1n5t0n, Warrigal, Yally; PNP, ais523,
Rodlen, Goethe
Savage: Bayes, HP2, Normish, PBA
Following that, this worked:
> A.1.a: I flip Billy Pilgrim's caste to Alpha.
Then the rest of the flips-to-alpha failed, they were part of illegal
therefore impossible-for-me-to-deputize-to-perform procedures.
Then, in this list:
> I flip each of the following players' castes to Beta: [list]
the first occurrence of a gamma in the list would have worked to satisfy
A.1.b, so j would have been flipped to beta (the rest failing).
Then in this list:
> I flip each of the following players' castes to Gamma: [list]
the first occurrence of a delta in the list would have worked to satisfy
A.1.c, so cmealerjr would have been flipped to gamma (the rest failing).
Then finally in this list:
> I flip each of the following players' castes to Delta: [list]
the first occurrence of an epsilon in the list would have worked to satisfy
A.1.d, so BobTHJ would have been flipped to delta.
Everything else failed, as the next required step would be a demotion of
too many gammas to deltas, and that didn't happen after the last promotion
above. So the end product would be that a set of promotions worked, but no
demotions, leaving:
Alpha: Billy Pilgrim
Beta: j
Gamma: OscarMeyr, Pavitra, Taral, woggle, Wooble, cmealerjr
Delta: Murphy, root, BobTHJ
Epsilon: comex, coppro, Craig, Dvorak Herring, ehird, Elysion,
harblcat, pikhq, Schrodinger's Cat, Sgeo, Siege, Sir Toby,
Spitemaster, Tiger, w1n5t0n, Warrigal, Yally; PNP, ais523,
Rodlen, Goethe
Savage: Bayes, HP2, Normish, PBA
And a set of demotions due (but all April promotions completed).
Of course coppro (pragmatically) set things "back", but those were illegal
by this judgement, so this gives an idea of what the "legal" arrangement
should have been.
-Goethe
