[Spoon-business] less judges

["Orc In A Spacesuit" <orcinaspacesuit@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

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Most of this his actually could be discussion, but its important, so I'm 
putting it on the public forum.  Plus, after writing half of it, I feel a 
need to make a prop to fix a few annoying bugs in the rules.

First, bd is not an Appelate Judge for the recent CFI.  When I did my 
analysis of the judgement system I did it correctly; however, I forgot to 
analyze who the heck made the thing.  It was bd who issued that CFI, and is 
therefore ineligible to become an Appelate Judge, as would be its defendant 
if it had one, or anyone who had been recently recused; unless this would 
result in less than three judges, which would make him elible again, but we 
have plently of judges.

POINT: bd is not an Appelate Judge for the current CFI.

Next, Bridgeweaver and Sheeba have unfortunatly fofited.  Although the rules 
don't explictly state that means they're no longer players, I think that's 
implicit in the word forfeit, as a 'player' is someone who's playing a game, 
and to 'forfeit' means to stop playing.
However, may not mean that they are no longer Appelate Judges.  They 
certainly are no longer members of the Upper House, as it always contains 
exactly those players that meet its criteria and nothing else.  But they've 
already been made Appelate Judges by the rules; they're no longer bound by 
the rules, but then neither is the atomic clock that determines when 
00:00:00 UTC is, yet we still reference it, and could call it The Timepiece 
if we wanted, and it would be, within the scope of the game.

Anyone who may feel free to CFI the matter and cause a giant headache for 
Dave.  I will not, for think we might be able to get past this without one.

POINT: Brigeweaver and Sheeba may or may not be Appelate Judges for the 
current CFI, pending a possible upcoming CFI.

That leaves two situations:

A: Orc, Voice, McGee, Bridgeweaver, and Sheeba are Appelate Judges.  Three 
of us must agree on a ruleing.

B: Orc, Voice and McGee are Appelate Judges.  Two of us must agree on a 
ruling.

Now, I'd like to reiterate that it is not us _Ruling_ on the CFI; it is us 
_Agreeing_ on a ruling for the CFI, which the Upper House does the actual 
ruliing on.  Since it is possible to change my mind (to correct for errors, 
as in this case, or be conviced of another interpertaion), I can actually 
agree with someone that the correct interpertation is FALSE.

FALSE FALSE FALSE.

And since we're talking about the ruling, I would love to hear any analysis 
on part of anyone else as to why it would be true.  As far as I know, I've 
disproved every iota of evidence saying it's true, while providing plenty 
saying it's false.

Now for that promised proposal:
]]
Iiiiiipprpropoooose theeefalloooowing:
{{__Forfeiture: New and Improved!__
Change the entirety of Rule 14, __Forfeit__, to the following:
{{
A Player may forfeit at any time by declaring publicly eir intention to do 
so.  This may be done even if the Clock is Off.  If there are no public 
fora, this may be done by privately notifying the Administrator, in which 
case e must announce it publicly as soon as possible.  No other rule may 
place any restrictions on when a Player may forfeit.

When a player forefeits, e ceases to be a player in this game, and ceases to 
be bound by its rules.  In addition, e ceases to be anything else defined 
within the scope of this game (such as society member or leader, (appelate) 
judge for a CFI, minister), except for administrator, if e is administrator. 
 E then becomes a "former player" in this game, which is not a player. 
[[For posterity, pretty much.]]  Should a "former player" become a player 
once again, e ceases to be a former player at that time.
}}

Orc In A Spacesuit

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