On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 12:58 PM, Ian Kelly <ian.g.ke...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> It refers to the subset of announcements in which the announcer claims
>> that e performed duties related to a contest in a timely manner during
>> a month.
>
> Respectfully disagree.
Fair enough. You wrote the text in question, but the fact that I
genuinely misinterpreted the intended meaning (I thought it was
intended to pragmatize the question of whether someone was actually a
contestmaster) demonstrates there is at least some ambiguity.
> And "such an announcement" strongly suggests an announcement made as
> described in the previous paragraph, which would make the rule
> inconsistent. If it instead read "As soon as possible after a
> contestmaster makes such an announcement", would you also infer that
> to somehow imply that contestmasters could simply make effective
> announcements willy-nilly, disregarding the previous paragraph
> entirely?
I'm simply arguing that the announcement itself is different from the
action of making the announcement, interpreting it akin to:
The Anarchist MAY, as soon as possible after Bastille Day,
publish a proposal containing the repeal of one or more rules.
As soon as possible after a player publishes such a proposal,
the Herald shall record that Bastille Day was celebrated.
Clearly in this case the second paragraph applies even if someone else
publishes a repeal proposal.
