====================================================================== JUDGEMENT OF CFJ 757 (Acting Promotor Vanyel violated rule 783...) ====================================================================== Judgement: FALSE Judge: Coren Eligible to Judge: Andre, Blob, Coren, Dave Bowen, Elde, elJefe, Jeffrey, JonRock, Kelly, KoJen, Michael, Oerjan, Steve, Swann, TAL, Vanyel, Vlad, Xanadu Judge: Chuck, declined Eligible to Judge: Andre, Blob, Coren, Dave Bowen, Chuck, Elde, elJefe, Jeffrey, JonRock, Kelly, KoJen, Michael, Oerjan, Steve, Swann, TAL, Vanyel, Vlad Caller: Pascal Scorekeepor: Chuck loses 2 Points for declining appointment, one of which goes to Kelly. Coren receives 3 Points for timely Judgement ---------------------------------------------------------------------- History: Called Sun, 26 Mar 1995 12:04:46 -0500 by Pascal Assigned Mon, 27 Mar 1995 00:45 UTC to Chuck Declined Mon, 27 Mar 1995 17:35:12 -0600 by Chuck --> Chuck loses 2 Points --> Kelly gains 1 Point Reassigned Tue, 28 Mar 1995 08:20 UTC to Coren Judged FALSE Mon, 3 Apr 1995 14:33:18 -0700 (PDT) by Coren --> Coren receives 3 Points ====================================================================== Statement: "Acting Promotor Vanyel violated rule 783 by distributing proposal 1535." ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Arguments: Rule 783 states: Proposals which contain clauses awarding, trading, penalizing, or otherwise changing the account of any Nomic Entity's holding of Points or any form of currency based on the Vote they cast on that Proposal are invalid, shall not be deemed to have been properly submitted, and shall not be Voted on. Proposal 1535: Amend our oldest Rule! Amend Rule 312 to read: If a Voter votes and if e voted FOR the Amendment of Rule 312, e gets one (1) point at the end of the Voting Period. [The obvious and direct intent of this Proposal is to redefine the conditions upon which a Player will receive the Vote award. As such it does not conflict with 1003.] Proposal 1535 penalizes players who don't vote FOR it, and is in violation of rule 783 #### Note: #### I don't think the EV proposals violate this, because they award EVs (a currency) based on votes on _other_ proposals. Of course by this reasoning I would also call a proposal such as: 'every time a Player votes for a proposal submitted by Pascal, e receives 10 points' legal... IMO, the coersion (sp?) and bonus clause rules need to be revised... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- References: [[Caller Pascal integrates his References into his Argument]] ====================================================================== Judgement: FALSE. Rule 783 specifically states that any Proposals "which contain clauses awarding" ... "Points" ... "based on the Vote they cast on that Proposal" are "invalid, shall not be deemed to have been properly submitted, and shall not be Voted upon." Since Proposal 1535 specifically awards Points to Players based on their Voting FOR Proposal 1535, by Rule 783 this Proposal invalid, not properly submitted, and should not have been Voted upon. The fact that the Points are not awarded immediately is immaterial - Rule 783 does not specify a time limit in which the Point awards must take place, and the stated awards on future Proposals are directly tied to the Players' Votes on 1535. However: While I believe that Proposal 1535 was indeed "invalid", "not properly submitted" and should "not have been Voted upon", the fact remains that at no place in Rule 783 does it say that the Promotor shall not distribute such an invalid Proposal, nor does any other Rule I have been able to ascertain. Therefore, in no way did Acting Promoter Vanyel violate Rule 783 by distributing Proposal 1535, and I am constrained to find this CFJ FALSE. I would like to note that, while the I believe the submission of this Proposal to be legal, I suspect that all Votes cast on it, including this Judges, were NOT legal, and should not be counted., by virtue of Rule 783. Judge Coren ====================================================================== -- kelly martin I have been told that when a large group of people believe in a fantasy, it is called a culture. When a small group believes, it is called a cult. When two people believe in a fantasy, it is called love; and when one person believes, it is called psychosis.