DIS: A Linguistic Moot Not-Brief

2014-10-11 Thread Nich Del Evans
This is not a brief because it contains no declaration of support for either ruling. Instead, I wish to offer a Linguistics-based approach to the current issue and convince players to side with a ruling based on intuitive readings of the rules and legal precident. Consider with me for a moment the

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [Referee] Counterscam

2014-10-11 Thread Alex Smith
On Sat, 2014-10-11 at 11:44 -0700, Kerim Aydin wrote: > Mine is more: "A rule says do X to accomplish Z. A higher rule says > "things like X are not sufficient to accomplish Z. Therefore you can't > do X to accomplish Z". > > Now you would say "but I invented X+Y, which is actually *better* th

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2014-10-11 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Sat, 11 Oct 2014, Alex Smith wrote: > Perhaps our disagreement is this: you see the process as "do X and Y to > accomplish Z, as defined by Rule N". I see the process as "do X and Y" – > thus, the process is something that can be followed regardless of > whether any rules define it – and it's

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2014-10-11 Thread Alex Smith
On Sat, 2014-10-11 at 11:07 -0700, Kerim Aydin wrote: > If a Rule actually said you could do a change With Notice, than we'd ask > how much Notice was enough, and ask per instance if there was anything > wrong with it. In fact, if Induction still existed, I would opine that > By Announcement mea

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2014-10-11 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Sat, 11 Oct 2014, Alex Smith wrote: > On Sat, 2014-10-11 at 10:41 -0700, Kerim Aydin wrote: > > Looking at that one, the only fail/success mechanism *is* by announcement, > > so that's the only basis for judging whether a judicial assignment > > succeeds. > > > > The requirement for the Arbit

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2014-10-11 Thread Alex Smith
On Sat, 2014-10-11 at 10:41 -0700, Kerim Aydin wrote: > Looking at that one, the only fail/success mechanism *is* by announcement, > so that's the only basis for judging whether a judicial assignment > succeeds. > > The requirement for the Arbitor to have further procedure to ensure > fairness is

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2014-10-11 Thread Kerim Aydin
> On Sat, 11 Oct 2014, Alex Smith wrote: > > Another example would be your process for assigning judges; it's clearly > > more complex than just the by-announcement in the last paragraph of rule > > 991, because you have requirements to distribute duties among judges > > over time. > > That one

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2014-10-11 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Sat, 11 Oct 2014, Alex Smith wrote: > On Sat, 2014-10-11 at 10:09 -0700, Kerim Aydin wrote: > > On Sat, 11 Oct 2014, Alex Smith wrote: > > > What makes this different from processes that aren't written down in the > > > rules? > > > > Which ones? Examples would be really helpful! Especially

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2014-10-11 Thread Alex Smith
On Sat, 2014-10-11 at 10:09 -0700, Kerim Aydin wrote: > On Sat, 11 Oct 2014, Alex Smith wrote: > > What makes this different from processes that aren't written down in the > > rules? > > Which ones? Examples would be really helpful! Especially examples > of what happens when these processes are

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2014-10-11 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Sat, 11 Oct 2014, Alex Smith wrote: > What makes this different from processes that aren't written down in the > rules? Which ones? Examples would be really helpful! Especially examples of what happens when these processes are CFJ'd?

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2014-10-11 Thread Alex Smith
On Sat, 2014-10-11 at 09:53 -0700, Kerim Aydin wrote: > If the Proposal text changed mid-stream, then there is more wrong with > the process. For example, the voting notice that started the voting > (R107) no longer refers to the matter being decided. In that case, > the text might be R105 ambigu

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2014-10-11 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Sat, 11 Oct 2014, Alex Smith wrote: > On Sat, 2014-10-11 at 09:28 -0700, Kerim Aydin wrote: > > Specifically, no rules-defined review process. You tried to do this > > by announcement. "By announcement" has no review. -G. > > To argue the point rather than the procedure, what makes a prop

DIS: Re: BUS: Mootward

2014-10-11 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Sat, 11 Oct 2014, Alex Smith wrote: > On Thu, 2014-10-09 at 16:53 -0700, Kerim Aydin wrote: > > > > I submit the following judgement for CFJ 3429. > > I announce my intent w/2 support to enter it into Moot. > > I support. I also notice several bugs the Arbitor could exploit in the > Moot rul

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2014-10-11 Thread Alex Smith
On Sat, 2014-10-11 at 09:28 -0700, Kerim Aydin wrote: > Specifically, no rules-defined review process. You tried to do this > by announcement. "By announcement" has no review. -G. To argue the point rather than the procedure, what makes a proposal have any more review than an announcement that

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2014-10-11 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Sat, 11 Oct 2014, Alex Smith wrote: > On Sat, 2014-10-11 at 09:26 -0700, Kerim Aydin wrote: > > On Sat, 11 Oct 2014, Alex Smith wrote: > > > Using the mechanism defined in rule 2437, I cause rule 2437 to set its > > > own text to the following: > > > > Fails under current standing judgement.

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2014-10-11 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Sat, 11 Oct 2014, Kerim Aydin wrote: > On Sat, 11 Oct 2014, Alex Smith wrote: > > Using the mechanism defined in rule 2437, I cause rule 2437 to set its > > own text to the following: > > Fails under current standing judgement. No review has taken place. Specifically, no rules-defined revi

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2014-10-11 Thread Alex Smith
On Sat, 2014-10-11 at 09:26 -0700, Kerim Aydin wrote: > On Sat, 11 Oct 2014, Alex Smith wrote: > > Using the mechanism defined in rule 2437, I cause rule 2437 to set its > > own text to the following: > > Fails under current standing judgement. No review has taken place. Sure, but I think your j

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2014-10-11 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Sat, 11 Oct 2014, Alex Smith wrote: > Using the mechanism defined in rule 2437, I cause rule 2437 to set its > own text to the following: Fails under current standing judgement. No review has taken place.

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Ribbons, 2010 version

2014-10-11 Thread Alex Smith
On Sat, 2014-10-11 at 17:09 +0200, James Beirne wrote: > > White (W): A player qualifies for a White Ribbon if e has never > > previously owned a White Ribbon (including under previous rulesets). A > > player who has been registered for at least 30 days and has never caused > > another person to g

DIS: Re: BUS: Ribbons, 2010 version

2014-10-11 Thread James Beirne
> While a person owns all types of Ribbon, that person can Raise a Banner > by announcement. This causes that person to win the game and a new game > begins. That person's Ribbon Ownership becomes the empty set. > ... > White (W): A player qualifies for a White Ribbon if e has never > previously ow