Proposal: "Pledge Timelines" AI=1.7 Coauthor='G.'
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Replace the text of Rule 2450 with the following:
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Breaking a publicly-made pledge is a cardable offense. If a
publicly-made pledge
says a person SHALL do something, without providing a time limit, then
e SHALL in
a timely manner in order to not break said pledge.
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On Mon, May 22, 2017 at 2:08 PM Kerim Aydin <ke...@u.washington.edu> wrote:
>
>
> Phrase it as the default if no time limit is supplied, not a hard-coded
> only option. Like: "if a pledge says a person SHALL do something, without
> providing a time limit, then e SHALL in a timely manner in order to keep
> the pledge").
>
> The problem with your phrasing: Think about SHALL NOTs instead of SHALLs.
> If someone pledges to NOT do something, do you really want to hard-code
> that
> they only have to refrain for a week, then they've fulfilled their pledge?
>
> On Mon, 22 May 2017, Quazie wrote:
> > I can't figure out the right way to note that a pledge SHALL be
> fulfilled in a timely manner, but I only want to imply that the pledge
> > maker SHALL fulfil their end of the pledge, once the conditional is met,
> but i want to do that without being overly perscriptive on
> > pledges.{{{
> >
> > Breaking a publicly-made pledge is a cardable offense. A pledge SHALL
> be fulfilled in a timely manner
> >
> > }}}
> >
> > The above seems to not quite imply what I want.
> >
> >
> > On Mon, May 22, 2017 at 1:24 PM Kerim Aydin <ke...@u.washington.edu>
> wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Mon, 22 May 2017, Quazie wrote:
> > > Also - What's the time scale on fulfilling pledges? I assume in
> a timely manner for
> > > general pledges like this one, but I am unsure.
> >
> > There's no Rules-specified time limit and the question's never
> been asked
> > for pledges. For Rules-based SHALLs, if there's no explicit time
> limit, I
> > don't think there is one. A fun example is this one:
> > Upon such an occurrence, the vote collector for the decision
> > SHALL issue a humiliating public reminder to the slackers
> who
> > have not yet cast any votes on it despite being eligible...
> > I think I've seen someone issue a reminder long after it was too
> late!
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
