On Mon, Jun 5, 2017 at 2:48 PM Kerim Aydin <ke...@u.washington.edu> wrote:
> > > Aaaaand ... the issues begin, too. NOT ANY CFJs: I want to see if > we can resolve these with discussion without mucking up the competition. > > > 1. From R2431: "During the Agoran Week following the initiation of a > Proposal Competition"... > > Does "the Agoran week following the initiation" mean this week, next > week, or 7 days from initiation? Given that (from R1023): > Agoran weeks begin at midnight UTC on Monday. > BUT (also from R1023): > These definitions do not apply to relative durations (e.g. > "within <number> days after <event>"). > If it just said "week", it would clearly be the relative duration one, > but Agoran Week? "Agoran week following" seems like an internal > contradiction referring to both parts of R1023. > > > 2. "any player CAN specify that a Proposal e submits is > a Competition Proposal for that Competition." > > Does the Proposal itself need not be submitted during the competition > time... Can a player specify an old proposal? > > > 3. "The Promotor SHALL distribute all Competition Proposals for a > given Competition in the same message." > > These still need to pay pend fees, right? If not, the Promotor will be > breaking R1607 (which overrules the above). The way it reads, if > there are a mix of pending and not-pending proposals in the competition, > the Promotor has to hold onto all of them (e SHALL NOT distribute the > not-pending ones due to R1607, but e SHALL NOT distribute the pending > ones because they have to be distributed with the non-pending ones). > Which means e's stuck every which way, because if e doesn't distribute > the pending ones in a timely manner, e's broken R1607. > > > 4. Is there any benefit to "winning" a proposal competition? What > is "winning" a proposal competition? Or is this just to distribute > a bunch of proposals without cost (that doesn't work, due to #3, above. > > I thought the whole point of a proposal competition was to distribute a bunch of proposals without paying for them. Proposal competitions are apparently useless - darn.
