Re: spoon-business: Appeal of CFI 712

["Glotmorf" <glotmorf@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 5/24/02 at 1:18 AM Ed Murphy wrote:

>I agree with Glotmorf's CFI (I believe it is or will be 728), which
>claims that the only ways to join the Holy Order of Points are the
>following ways from Proposal 676:
>
>     a) Be Wonko.  (Effective in making Wonko a member)
>     b) Vote for Proposal 676.  (Ineffective, due to Rule 155)
>     c) Be a new player, and declare joining.  (Has not taken effect;
>          none of the players claiming to join this way were new players)
>
>For this reason, I judge the statement of CFI 721:
>
>     "Wonko is the sole member of the Holy Order of Points."
>
>to be TRUE.
>
>I also appeal the judgment of CFI 712, whose statement (judged TRUE by
>The Reality Police) is:
>
>     "Glotmorf can't join the Holy order of Points.  There's nothing
>      in the club prop that says how you can join it, other than the
>      (illgal) method of joining by voting for it."
>
>Here is an excerpt from Proposal 676:
>
>     "New players may join by announcing eir intention to do so on a
>      Public Forum"
>
>The object of "join" in this excerpt is "the Holy Order of Points",
>and the object of "you" in the second sentence of CFJ 712's statement
>includes "new players", so the second sentence is false - making the
>entire statement false.
>
>
>--
>Ed Murphy <emurphy42@xxxxxxxxxxxx>          "I'm not sure I can go through
>http://members.fortunecity.com/emurphy/      with it.  Leave, I mean."

As a Member of the Upper House, I judge CFI 712 to be TRUE.

Analysis:

I find fault with the Appelant's reasoning regarding the word "you".  A CFI is a game action, appearing on the public forum.  Game actions only apply to current players.  Therefore, the use of the word "you" in the CFI, at the time it was made, could only address current players, the logical intended target of any game action that addresses the readership of the public forum; had new players been targeted, the only legitimate way the action could have done so was to address new players as "they".

Given "you" referred to players existing at that time, and given no new players had joined the game since the formation of the HOoP, Plaintiff was quite correct in stating there was nothing in the HOoP charter that said how "you" could join.

I have said.

						Glotmorf