spoon-business: RFJ39 ruling

[Thomas Hirsch <thomas@xxxxxxxxxx>]

> R226/0 does not prohibit voting in private fora.

Sentence: TRUE
Analysis:

R226/0:  "A Player may vote privately if e so desires by notifying the 
Administrator. Votes cast privately shall not be revealed until voting 
ends."

Postings in private fora are not officially part of the game. However, 
the action of notifying the Administrator (if e is member of the private 
forum) is official, as its means are not further specified in R226/0. 
Concerning the term of "revealing", I agree with Joel s interpretation: 
It is impossible to reveal a condition known a priori. A priori in this 
case means, that the members of the forum have the knowledge in the 
moment the votes are cast, not by any information afterwards. 
[[A moment in PbeM-games is hard to grasp, in our case the forum time 
stamp should suffice]]
Thus, any later notification of ones votes, either by the Administrator 
or by the player emself, is forbidden by the rule in question. 
In addition, the player may even decide to adjust eir votes (if allowed 
by the Rules) in another official notification, which may be adressed 
to the Administrator only. Notification of other players is non-official 
and non-binding.
[[This kind of misinformation is of course strongly discouraged and 
shall serve only for demonstration purposes here.]]

-relet