On Tue, 16 May 2017, Publius Scribonius Scholasticus wrote:
> I intend to assign CFJs 3487 and 3488 to me without 3 objections.
>
> Is there any precedent as to the rules being binding to non-players
> and/or former players?
"Persons" include player and non-player persons.
- If the rules say a person CAN do something, e CAN. Otherwise, no-one
could Register.
- Once a person deregisters, aspects of eir Agoran record can still be
tracked (Patent Titles for example; CFJ 1592).
- Some things are explicitly reserved for Players only; Offices (explicit
in R1006), and switches that are "player switches" (CFJ3457). These
go away or are lost to the player when a player deregisters.
- If the rules are silent on whether something is removed (e.g. Judgeship)
I think the precedents are generally that it remains, but I'd be hard-
pressed to name a Case for a precedent. R2125 generally implies that
if the Rules don't specify a change happens, it doesn't.
- "Responsibilities and binding" is a tricky one. (by "responsibility",
I mean SHALLS and SHALL-NOTS).
- We can award Patent Titles to non-players who don't know they've been
awarded it (e.g. Hero to Douglas Hofstadter).
- In the past, the fact that a person couldn't be bound to an agreement
without consent meant they couldn't be punished for violating a
SHALL or SHALL NOT if they didn't agree to it.
- But what if a Patent Title is a "punishment"? They've been used like
that before, so gray area.
- I just noticed that Cards are not reserved to players. Can we "punish"
a non-player by Carding? I dunno.
