Re: [s-d] [s-b] Leave and a Proposal

[Jeff Gitchel <gitchel@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 1/07/2010, at 23:08, Craig Daniel <teucer@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 11:58 PM, Gabriel Vistica <gvistica@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> But there's a pending CFI on the matter of whether you can un-Leave yourself, so we'll find out soon enough.
>> 
>> Oops. Newbie mistake. Also, I forgot that another proposal had already been submitted that essentially dealt with the issue, so if my
>> proposal actually becomes valid, consider it withdrawn.
> 
> Oh no, no mistake. The absolute best way (at least in my humble
> opinion) to handle matters where the rules are less than clear is to
> pick the credible interpretation you want to have be true and plow
> ahead on the assumption that it is, letting the judiciary figure out
> what to do about it afterwards.
> 
> Warning: this can create situations where you turn out to have been
> wrong all along and some of what you did is stupid.
> 
> Other warning: this can create multiple different versions of the
> nomic universe which are *radically* different from one another and
> sometimes in ways that make it difficult to impossible to tell what
> happened for real. If one version is highly unlikely but not actually
> proven false, most often because the judgement that it is false is
> only valid if it is, then that version is known as a "Woobleverse."
> These can be kind of awesome, but generally the woobleverse version is
> unlikely enough that we all just ignore it and get on with what's
> really going on.
> 
> - teucer
> 



Ahem!

In my role as Mentor, being encouraged by the once again disparaged but nonetheless Rule-ish Rule 69 to give useful advice to my Mentee, I hereby encourage my Mentee (who I hope will soon be able to come off leave - at least in time to get some positive points) to follow this sterling advice from the Great Teucer (whatever his name happens to be).





Gitchel 
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