Re: DIS: Question about CFJs.

2011-06-30 Thread ais523
On Thu, 2011-06-30 at 17:00 -0700, Kerim Aydin wrote: > There's nothing to stop someone from calling the same CFJ over and over > again, hoping for the opposite answer. Sometimes people have done that > in the past... once or twice. We deal with that by saying "once an > answer is given, you shou

Re: DIS: Question about CFJs.

2011-06-30 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Fri, 1 Jul 2011, Elliott Hird wrote: > On 1 July 2011 00:09, Geoffrey Spear wrote: > > Except that it's not, because in common law jurisdictions the rulings > > actually have legitimate power, while in Agora you're just allowed to > > possibly consider them in interpreting the rules. > > Yea

Re: DIS: Question about CFJs.

2011-06-30 Thread Elliott Hird
On 1 July 2011 00:09, Geoffrey Spear wrote: > Except that it's not, because in common law jurisdictions the rulings > actually have legitimate power, while in Agora you're just allowed to > possibly consider them in interpreting the rules. Yeah, but is that power actually codified anywhere, or ju

Re: DIS: Question about CFJs.

2011-06-30 Thread Geoffrey Spear
On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 7:00 PM, Elliott Hird wrote: > On 30 June 2011 23:50, Joshua Murphy wrote: >> People refer to some CFJs like they were rules, but they aren't >> really rules. If there isn't any particular reason for this, can we make >> them actual rules? > > It's a similar situation to

Re: DIS: Question about CFJs.

2011-06-30 Thread Elliott Hird
On 30 June 2011 23:50, Joshua Murphy wrote: > People refer to some CFJs like they were rules, but they aren't really rules. > If there isn't any particular reason for this, can we make them actual rules? It's a similar situation to common law.

Re: DIS: Question about CFJs.

2011-06-30 Thread Aaron Goldfein
On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 17:50, Joshua Murphy wrote: > People refer to some CFJs like they were rules, but they aren't really rules. > If there isn't any particular reason for this, can we make them actual rules? CFJ procedure is codified in the rules. A CFJ itself can be called by any player to

Re: DIS: Question about CFJs.

2011-06-30 Thread ais523
On Thu, 2011-06-30 at 15:50 -0700, Joshua Murphy wrote: > People refer to some CFJs like they were rules, but they aren't > really rules. If there isn't any particular reason for this, can we > make them actual rules? They aren't binding; rather, they're a reflection of what most players think the

DIS: Question about CFJs.

2011-06-30 Thread Joshua Murphy
People refer to some CFJs like they were rules, but they aren't really rules. If there isn't any particular reason for this, can we make them actual rules?

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Registration

2011-06-30 Thread Joshua Murphy
From: Ed Murphy To: agora-discussion@agoranomic.org Sent: Wednesday, June 29, 2011 9:38 PM Subject: DIS: Re: BUS: Registration Ed Murphy wrote: >No relation. - Agreed. No relation (as far as we know). Joshua Murphy wrote: > I hereby register with the nic

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Flawless Victory

2011-06-30 Thread Charles Walker
On 30 June 2011 03:52, Kerim Aydin wrote: > I left self-ratification in as Walker had it in eir draft I was trying to fix, > don't really mind!  I'd vote for either.  I'll leave it up to Walker. I don't particularly mind either, I just added it in because I remember wins being self-ratified in th

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Flawless Victory

2011-06-30 Thread Charles Walker
On 30 June 2011 06:18, omd wrote: > On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 12:30 AM, Kerim Aydin wrote: >> I prefer the old version where the Champion was partial pragmatic; >> awarded by the Herald (hopefully when e's pretty sure the dust has >> settled) but the award fails if the win failed. > > Wasn't e tech