Level confusion, Goethe. The Statement "Roujo committed the Class-3 Crime of Hazing." is not frivolous; it alleges that Roujo frivolously CFJed on the success of a player's attempt to register.
On 9 July 2013 10:10, Kerim Aydin <ke...@u.washington.edu> wrote: > > > On Tue, 9 Jul 2013, Steven Gardner wrote: > > Let me stress that I'm talking hypothetically. Roujo never actually > called for Judgement (wrong forum, hehe), and so > > did not actually commit the Crime. But I am interested to know what the > Courts would consider a frivolous CFJ in the > > sense of the last paragraph of R869. > > Some context may or may not help at all! > > The registration rule is currently purposefully a little squishy, to > be welcoming, trying to say that it doesn't matter what exact form > a new player uses, as long as intent to register is pretty clear. > Given that squishiness, for a while (maybe still) two things were going > on: > > 1. Some new players (or former players re-registering) would purposefully > try to register in a borderline or clever way that made it worth a CFJ > on whether or not they succeeded - this was also testing what constituted > 'consent' for R101(iii); > > 2. Since this happened a lot, an in-joke that developed was whenever an > "innocent" newbie registered, no matter how clearly, someone would call a > CFJ on whether it succeeded, making the newbie ask what e did wrong. > Calling this "Hazing" was more or less meant to put a stop to this sort of > thing. Basically because the joke was getting a little stale. > > But it's never been prosecuted, maybe it's useless. Or maybe it's a > deterrent. No precedent really. > > You're right that the recent attempt to discussion wasn't at all CFJ- > worthy - I was still half-asleep this morning when I thought it might be > worth a CFJ. I'd call a test case to set a precedent for frivolousness, > but if it were done to be a test case it might no longer be frivolous... > (is that like the Uninteresting Number paradox?) > > -G. > > > > -- Steve Gardner Research Grants Development Faculty of Business and Economics Monash University, Caulfield campus Rm: S8.04 | ph: (613) 9905 2486 e: steven.gard...@monash.edu *** NB I am now working 1.0 FTE, but I am away from my desk** on alternate Thursday afternoons (pay weeks). *** Two facts about lists: (1) one can never remember the last item on any list; (2) I can't remember what the other one is.
