On 6/21/22 17:16, Kerim Aydin via agora-discussion wrote: > On 6/21/2022 10:34 AM, ais523 via agora-discussion wrote: >> On Tue, 2022-06-21 at 08:19 -0700, Kerim Aydin via agora-discussion wrote: >>> I don't agree with this interpretation. There are quite a few examples of >>> using "wrong" nicknames if the person is clear from context (it's ancient >>> so I'm not citing this as strict precedent, but CFJ 1361 is an example). >>> I think there's sufficient context in the Agoran discussion forum of >>> Discord (including the nickname Jason gives emself there) for this to be >>> person-specifying. >> Counterevidence: not being a Discord user, although I'm vaguely aware >> that there's someone named "Random Internet Cat" on Discord, I couldn't >> remember which Agoran it was (until this thread reminded me). So this >> didn't immediately specify a particular person, from my point of view. >> (I could probably have figured it out if it were important.) > The sole criterion for a coauthor is that they must be a "person other > than the author" (Rule 2350). Doesn't have to be a player, the coauthor > doesn't have to be aware of the coauthorship, and can't formally opt out > or anything like that. > > A famous person who's never been in Agora could be listed, AFAICT. Or if > I listed an unknown name as a coauthor, and when asked said "oh that's my > non-Agoran friend here in RL who was reading over my shoulder and made a > suggestion" I suspect it would meet our "trusting to the > preponderance-of-evidence" standard. > > So if cat was a person on Discord who hadn't registered and never posted > on the main lists, it might work fine - a cfj on the subject would > probably turn up "yep that's a person who's not 4st, more likely than not" > if a discord conversation between the two of them was posted as evidence. > > So it might boil down to: does the fact that it wasn't clear that > cat==Jason to some people make it FALSE to that standard? > > Recently (but before you re=joined maybe? can't remember) I think we had > someone post something from an unknown email account and say "I swear I'm > a registered agoran under a different email account, I'm not saying who I > am but I take [action]." Does anyone remember the outcome of that or am I > misremembering the circumstances. > > -G. >
That was me. http://faculty.washington.edu/kerim/nomic/cases/?3857 -- Jason Cobb Arbitor, Assessor, Rulekeepor, Stonemason
