On Sun, 12 Jan 2020 at 04:36, Alexis Hunt via agora-discussion <agora-discussion@agoranomic.org> wrote: > I would like to ask for arguments for an issue completely unaddressed in > arguments: How does Rule 2602's use of a continuously-evaluated condition, > as in Rule 2350 and part of Rule 103, affect the operation of the "once"? > In particular, does it make the "once" redundant because the condition > remains true and an action can be "performed once" any number of times? > Arguably this is the only interpretation permitted by the text and, > therefore, other factors do not apply. > > Other interpretations could include that the action can only be done once > ever, that it can only be done once per triggering event (but this seems > like a stretch given the language), and that it can only be done once each > time the condition changes, meaning that multiple events in the last 7 days > do not stack, and there must be a clear 7-day period between ribbons earned > to allow the player to repeat the action. > > The rest of the judgment I'm quite confident on, but this is not something > I feel confident ruling on without giving others time to consider.
Gratuitous: Now that you bring it up, here's a possible argument that Jason Cobb didn't trigger the Glitter rule more than once. I'm not completely confident in it, but may be worth considering. It comes down to interpreting the text "(until e earns another ribbon)". If R2602 said "(until e again earns a ribbon)" I think it would be pretty clear Jason Cobb could trigger that rule again each time e earned an Emerald ribbon. However, the use of the word "it" in the text "but already owned it" in R2602 indicates to me that the text of the rule is written with the point of view that there's only one of each ribbon colour. Otherwise it could have been written "but already owned a ribbon of that colour". Since, at least in the writing of R2602, there is considered to only be one of each ribbon, the text "until e earns another ribbon" must mean that the condition can only be satisfied when e earns a ribbon of a different colour. BTW, CFJ 3770 involved the word "once", but the rule involved there didn't say anything specific like "(until e earns another ribbon)" so it's probably not applicable here. https://faculty.washington.edu/kerim/nomic/cases/?3770 - Falsifian
