On Fri, May 22, 2020 at 1:19 PM grok via agora-discussion <agora-discussion@agoranomic.org> wrote: > > On Fri, May 22, 2020, 2:16 PM Kerim Aydin via agora-discussion < > agora-discussion@agoranomic.org> wrote: > > > > > On 5/22/2020 12:09 PM, Aris Merchant wrote: > > > On Fri, May 22, 2020 at 12:08 PM Kerim Aydin wrote: > > > > > >> > > >> Rule 2551: > > >> An Auction ends 7 days after its initiation, or immediately if no > > >> bid has been placed or withdrawn in the last 96 hours, or > > >> immediately if it is terminated. > > >> > > >> Since no bid can be made until the auction starts (that's in R2550), > > then > > >> on the instant after it starts, the condition "no bid has been placed or > > >> withdrawn in the last 96 hours" would be TRUE... > > >> > > > > > > This has been noticed before... apparently not fixed though. > > > > > > > lol I kept re-reading that phrase this morning thinking "surely I'm > > missing something, something that glaring would have been noticed long ago > > given how many cfjs auctions have produced..." > > > > I think it depends on your interpretation of when hour 1 of the "last 96 > hours" is. I think it would be reasonable for a CFJ to conclude either way > on this.
I'm not seeing a textual interpretation where it doesn't time out immediately. Could you explain? Though maybe some judge found something last time, I really would have sworn this has come up before. -Aris
