spoon-business: RE: Proposal: _My Gavel Up Your Ass_ (aka No Judicial Kickbacks)

["Jonathan Van Matre" <JVanMatre@xxxxxxxx>]

Just spotted a loophole.  Revised version below.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jonathan Van Matre 
> Sent: Monday, January 07, 2002 12:59 PM
> To: spoon-business@xxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Proposal: _My Gavel Up Your Ass_ (aka No Judicial Kickbacks)
> 
> 
> Proposal _My Gavel Up Your Ass_
> 
> Create a rule as follows:
> 
> {{
> _No Judicial Kickbacks_
> 
> There exists an entity known as Mike Judge.  Mike Judge is a 
> non-player entity.
> 
> No Call For Judgement may know the identity of the player 
> judging it.  Any Call For Judgement which attempts to 
> identify the player judging it will see that identity as Mike 
> Judge.  Any Call For Judgement which rewards or penalizes the 
> player judging it will dispense those rewards or penalties to 
> Mike Judge.  The judge assigned to the ruling shall remain 
> the player assigned by the Administrator.
> 
> No Call For Judgement (hereafter referred to as CFJ) may know 
> how the judge of that CFJ ruled.  Any CFJ that attempts to 
> determine how its judge ruled will see that ruling as "My 
> gavel up your ass.  Huh-huh.  I said 'Ass'."  The actual 
> ruling on the CFJ shall remain the ruling given by the player 
> assigned to judge it.
> 
> No Call For Judgement may include a statement which refers 
> specifically to the judge assigned to judge that CFJ, or the 
> judge specifically assigned to judge any other specific CFJ 
> (where specific CFJ means any qualification that could refer 
> only to one CFJ.  In other words, the CFJ need not be 
> referenced by serial number, as long as a unique 
> specification is given).  In addition, no CFJ may include a 
> statement which refers to the CFJs submitted by a specific 
> player as a class.
> 
> Any CFJ statement which refers specifically to the judge 
> assigned to judge that CFJ, or the judge specifically 
> assigned to judge any other specific CFJ, as well as any CFJ 
> statement which refers to the CFJs submitted by a specific 
> player as a class, must be judged "Refused" or "Undecided", 
> else the ruling judge will be added permanently to the List 
> of Misbehaving Judges, and may not be removed from the List 
> of Misbehaving Judges except in the event of a Win.  This 
> rule supersedes rule 209.
> 
> At the time of the passage of this proposal, any CFJ judged 
> in the past 10 ndays that referred specifically to the judge 
> assigned to judge that CFJ, or the judge specifically 
> assigned to judge any other specific CFJ, will have its 
> ruling summarily changed to REFUSED.  This paragraph will then 
> delete itself from this rule.  The following paragraph is 
> inactive until this paragraph is deleted.
> 
> No ruling on a CFJ may be changed except by the judge 
> assigned to rule on that CFJ.  No rule may alter the ruling 
> on a CFJ in any way.  Judges may revise their ruling within 
> one nday of the first posting of that ruling in a public 
> forum, after which time all rulings are final.
> }}
> 
>