I judge CFJ 4125: FALSE. Reasoning: Under R1728, tabling an intent requires a public announcement that “clearly, conspicuously, explicitly, and *without obfuscation*” identifies the action and method. R478 similarly requires that by-announcement acts be performed “in a single public message… clearly and unambiguously.” Here, the required elements for both rules are written with digit-for-letter substitutions, which requires decoding, (decoding only requires mental effort of some sort beyond what is required to read normal text) before a reasonable player can understand the text presented. This is a clear case of obfuscation and it fails the standards of both rules. That some readers decoded the meaning or even objected is irrelevant because the test is objective and attaches to the text itself, not anyone's comprehension of it. The community interest is also served by not opening the door to encoded text being used to table an intent or perform by-announcement acts. Therefore, consistent with CFJ 3747’s treatment of clarity as a justiable threshold, I conclude the announcement does not satisfy R1728 or R478.
On Sun, Oct 19, 2025 at 7:27 PM Janet Cobb via agora-business < [email protected]> wrote: > On 10/19/25 21:24, secretsnail9 via agora-business wrote: > > On Sun, Oct 19, 2025 at 5:00 AM secretsnail9 via agora-business < > > [email protected]> wrote: > > > >> 1 1nt3nd, w1th0ut 0bj3ct10n, t0 d3cl4r3 4p4thy, sp3c1fy1ng mys3lf. > >> -- > >> sn41l > >> St34mpunk H4t > >> > > CFJ: snail tabled an intent in the above quoted message. > > > > Arguments for FALSE: replacing letters with numbers could violate the > > "without obfuscation" requirement in R1728. > > > > Arguments for TRUE: players were able to recognize the intent as an > intent, > > and objected. > > > > I'd like to see some clarification as to where the line is for > > "obfuscation" in regards to this way of communicating: could Agora be > > played entirely with the above replacements? (Though I recommend against > > anyone doing that.) > > > > -- > > snail > > Steampunk Hat > > > Gratuitous: See CFJ 3747 as precedent. > > -- > Janet Cobb > > Assessor, Rulekeepor > > -- EarlyRetirement8 "Seek the Uncomfortable" PGP/GPG: 52436D6D <https://keys.openpgp.org/vks/v1/by-fingerprint/52436D6D16A474173989264953FD4511719833F6>
