The issue is that the Zombie Auctions rule specifically may prevent that.
It has higher power then the newer auction rules, and says:
The winner of the auction, if any, is the player who bids the
highest number of shinies...
This makes the winner to the player who bid the highest number during the
auction,
not whomever holds the largest uncancelled bid at the end. If you cancel your
"highest" bid, you're still literally the player who bid the highest during
the auction.
To see the need for this sort of caveat, see first paragraph of R2124, where
the Rule has to explicitly specify that Supporters/Objectors are people who have
not withdrawn their support/objections - without that explicit language, even
if you could withdraw support, it would be meaningless.
The counter-argument is that we might be able to "sensibly infer" that
withdrawing
a bid means you never made the highest bid, but that's counterfactual to the
literal words, so I'm not sure if we'd stretch it that way (being the strict
textualists that we tend to be).
On Thu, 15 Feb 2018, ATMunn wrote:
> New bids are supposed to overwrite old ones, don't know if it actually works.
>
> On 2/15/2018 1:23 PM, Gaelan Steele wrote:
> > If you’re right about newer bids overwriting older ones, we should be fine.
> >
> > Gaelan
> >
> > > On Feb 15, 2018, at 10:14 AM, Kerim Aydin <ke...@u.washington.edu> wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Ah - entirely forgot about that. Well hopefully my insertion didn't make
> > > things worse then.
> > >
> > >
> > > > On Thu, 15 Feb 2018, Gaelan Steele wrote:
> > > > I resolve my intent to ratify without objection. CB’s and my
> > > > non-real-integer bids should no longer exist.
> > > >
> > > > Gaelan
> > > >
> > > > > On Feb 15, 2018, at 9:54 AM, Kerim Aydin <ke...@u.washington.edu>
> > > > > wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > The following bids are defensive. If the auction works as is sensible
> > > > > these simply
> > > > > result in 12-shiny bids in each auction. If the auction is already
> > > > > screwed up,
> > > > > these bids offer some defense. If it screws things up badly beyond
> > > > > what's been done
> > > > > already I'll card myself. Details later.
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > > I put the Zombie Quazie up for auction (i.e. I initiate this
> > > > > > auction).
> > > > > I bid a number of shinies equal to the cardinality of the continuum
> > > > > for Quazie.
> > > > > I bid 30 shinies for Quazie.
> > > > > I bid 12 shinies for Quazie.
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > > I put the Zombie nichdel up for auction (i.e. I initiate this
> > > > > > auction).
> > > > > I bid a number of shinies equal to the cardinality of the continuum
> > > > > for nichdel.
> > > > > I bid 30 shinies for nichdel.
> > > > > I bid 12 shinies for nichdel.
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > > I put the Zombie omd up for auction (i.e. I initiate this auction).
> > > > > I bid a number of shinies equal to the cardinality of the continuum
> > > > > for omd.
> > > > > I bid 30 shinies for omd.
> > > > > I bid 12 shinies for omd.
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> >
>
