On Mon, 25 May 2009, Sean Hunt wrote: > Gratuitous: Publishing an erroneous report (power-1 Rule) is less > serious than ratifying one (Class-8 Crime).
Mitigating argument: Ratifying a report that everyone understands to be erroneous for the good of the game (or what the officer reasonably perceives to be the good of the game), without objection (when anyone who cared would have seen the judgement coming, and so could be said to tacitly agree it was for the good of the game as no objections were forthcoming, or at least it would be reasonable for the officer to so believe) is less serious than willfully keeping the game in continual uncertainty. Otherwise, ratification would be unacceptably risky for officers. ps. court cases raised about a document should block ratification, not just self-ratificatation; generalization of R2201 in order here? -Goethe
