Well, if you read only the Rules, you'd wonder why everyone keeps doing things with if/then clauses, because strictly speaking there's nothing that allows them, and the Fora clause on "announcement" pretty much implies that conditionals don't work, at all (except for voting), because that rule states that you have to unambigiously and clearly state what you're doing.
So in order to think conditionals work at all, you need to be observing something extra-rules to begin with. On Mon, 27 Nov 2017, VJ Rada wrote: > eh, they help. only as precedent to apply to future cfjs. but there > are big ones that matter (remember when everyone was messing around in > other languages?) > > On Mon, Nov 27, 2017 at 11:16 AM, Corona <liliumalbum.ag...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Actually, I'll gladly accept failure, since you sent your bidding > > message after me, and I would have wasted favors had this worked. > > (Also, are historical CFJs a required read for playing Agora now?) > > > > On 11/26/17, Alexis Hunt <aler...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I'm generally philosophically opposed to arbitrarily complex actions taken > >> "by announcement". > >> > >> CFJ 1774 is, I think, the strongest precedent we have here. The CFJ is > >> clear that you can't, by default, take an action by announcement > >> ambiguously; the use of shorthands (and, by extension, conditionals) are a > >> convenience but not one that can be used abusively. > >> > >> On Sun, 26 Nov 2017 at 19:04 Corona <liliumalbum.ag...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> > >>> I thought about including a simple backup clause, but I ran out of time. > >>> > >>> On 11/26/17, Alexis Hunt <aler...@gmail.com> wrote: > >>> > On Sun, 26 Nov 2017 at 18:58 Corona <liliumalbum.ag...@gmail.com> > >>> > wrote: > >>> > > >>> >> The following 5 paragraphs apply to all actions taken in this message, > >>> >> other text to the contrary notwithstanding: > >>> >> > >>> > > >>> > I'm willing to argue that most of this message fails due to being too > >>> > complicated to resolve, but I'm gonna sit this one out and let others > >>> argue > >>> > about it. > >>> > > >>> > >> > > > > -- > From V.J. Rada >
