Re: DIS: Quality Judge Assignment (updated)

2007-11-29 Thread Ed Murphy
Zefram wrote: something like "... whose Quality for that case is not within 5 of the highest Quality for that case among those eligible to be judge". "... whose Quality for that case is at least 5 less than the Quality of another eligible judge". Eagerness is an integer index with a value fr

Re: DIS: Quality Judge Assignment (updated)

2007-11-29 Thread Zefram
Roger Hicks wrote: >Except where modified by other rules, the entities qualified to be >assigned as judge of a judicial case are active players. Should be "... are the active players.". > The CotC SHALL NOT knowingly assign a judge to a case who >does not share the highest Quality value

Re: DIS: Quality Judge Assignment (updated)

2007-11-29 Thread Roger Hicks
Latest Revision: Proto-Proposal: Quality Judge Assignment { Replace the last three paragraphs of R1868 with: {{ Except where modified by other rules, the entities qualified to be assigned as judge of a judicial case are active players. Being unqualified to be assigned as a judge does not inherent

Re: DIS: Quality Judge Assignment (updated)

2007-11-29 Thread Ian Kelly
On Nov 29, 2007 1:39 PM, Ian Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What happens in this case when the partnership's quality is reduced? > Is the alien's quality reduced like any other member's, or is the > reduction spread over only the player members? Actually, I guess it clearly needs to be over on

Re: DIS: Quality Judge Assignment (updated)

2007-11-29 Thread Ian Kelly
On Nov 29, 2007 1:31 PM, Roger Hicks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Quality for all natural persons can be defaulted to 0 with only active > players eligible to be assigned as judges. This would allow > partnerships containing aliens to judge (albeit less often than if > they were players). What hap

Re: DIS: Quality Judge Assignment (updated)

2007-11-29 Thread Roger Hicks
On Nov 29, 2007 1:27 PM, Ian Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Nov 29, 2007 1:19 PM, Roger Hicks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > { > > The Quality of an entity which is composed of one or more persons is > > the average of the quality of each of those persons. Whenever an > > entity composed of

Re: DIS: Quality Judge Assignment (updated)

2007-11-29 Thread Ian Kelly
On Nov 29, 2007 1:19 PM, Roger Hicks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > { > The Quality of an entity which is composed of one or more persons is > the average of the quality of each of those persons. Whenever an > entity composed of one or more persons would have its quality reduced, > that reduction is

Re: DIS: Quality Judge Assignment (updated)

2007-11-29 Thread Ian Kelly
On Nov 29, 2007 1:05 PM, Ed Murphy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At least if the player actually does judge, despite their previous > expression of disinterest in doing so. This could equally apply to > accidental assignment of inactive players. Due to the nature of inactivity, I think it's less l

Re: DIS: Quality Judge Assignment (updated)

2007-11-29 Thread Roger Hicks
On Nov 29, 2007 1:05 PM, Ed Murphy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Partnerships should never be qualified to judge, period. > > Inactive players are unlikely to actually judge a case mistakenly > > assigned to them. > > > > It may be worthwhile to let the assignment stand if the player is > > first-

Re: DIS: Quality Judge Assignment (updated)

2007-11-29 Thread Roger Hicks
On Nov 29, 2007 11:39 AM, Zefram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Roger Hicks wrote: > >In my estimation that deters from one of the strengths of this system. > >All Players (or all possible judicial panels) are qualified judges, > >even those who are second-class or not presently interested in > >judg

Re: DIS: Quality Judge Assignment (updated)

2007-11-29 Thread Ed Murphy
root wrote: On Nov 29, 2007 11:12 AM, Roger Hicks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: In my estimation that deters from one of the strengths of this system. All Players (or all possible judicial panels) are qualified judges, even those who are second-class or not presently interested in judging. Will th

Re: DIS: Quality Judge Assignment (updated)

2007-11-29 Thread Zefram
Roger Hicks wrote: >In my estimation that deters from one of the strengths of this system. >All Players (or all possible judicial panels) are qualified judges, >even those who are second-class or not presently interested in >judging. My suggestion retains that aspect of your proposal. It would ma

Re: DIS: Quality Judge Assignment (updated)

2007-11-29 Thread Ian Kelly
On Nov 29, 2007 11:12 AM, Roger Hicks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In my estimation that deters from one of the strengths of this system. > All Players (or all possible judicial panels) are qualified judges, > even those who are second-class or not presently interested in > judging. Will they ever

Re: DIS: Quality Judge Assignment (updated)

2007-11-29 Thread Roger Hicks
On Nov 29, 2007 10:59 AM, Zefram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Roger Hicks wrote: > >What if we revised the assignment provision to read "The CotC SHALL > >NOT knowingly assign an unqualified judge to a case." This would > >prevent assignments of unqualified judges from being later found > >invalid.

Re: DIS: Quality Judge Assignment (updated)

2007-11-29 Thread Zefram
Roger Hicks wrote: >What if we revised the assignment provision to read "The CotC SHALL >NOT knowingly assign an unqualified judge to a case." This would >prevent assignments of unqualified judges from being later found >invalid. I think that's basically what you'll have to do, but don't overload

Re: DIS: Quality Judge Assignment (updated)

2007-11-29 Thread Roger Hicks
On Nov 29, 2007 10:19 AM, Zefram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Roger Hicks wrote: > >Except where modified by other rules, the entities qualified to be > >assigned as judge of a judicial case are those who share the highest > >Quality value. > > Bad idea. Quality records are likely to get out of sy

Re: DIS: Quality Judge Assignment (updated)

2007-11-29 Thread Zefram
Roger Hicks wrote: >Except where modified by other rules, the entities qualified to be >assigned as judge of a judicial case are those who share the highest >Quality value. Bad idea. Quality records are likely to get out of synch with reality, as for example happened to OscarMeyr's posture two da

DIS: Quality Judge Assignment (updated)

2007-11-28 Thread Roger Hicks
Proto-Proposal: Quality Judge Assignment { Amend R1868 by replacing the fourth paragraph with: {{ Except where modified by other rules, the entities qualified to be assigned as judge of a judicial case are those who share the highest Quality value. Being unqualified to be assigned as a judge does