Re: spoon-discuss: Re: spoon-business: A solution to the Haiku Bonus

[Wonko <dplepage@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Quoth Eric Gerlach,

> At 07:39 PM 2002-02-11 -0500, you wrote:
>> While we're on the subject of people getting points easily, how about
>> this...
>> 
>> I transfer -88 points from myself to Antonio.
>> I transfer -4 points from myself to Bean.
>> I transfer -60 points from myself to Congenital Optimist.
>> I transfer -85 points from myself to Glotmorf.
>> I transfer -56 points from myself to Iain.
>> I transfer -92 points from myself to Rob.
>> I transfer -122 points from myself to Scoff!.
>> I transfer -83 points from me myself The Voice.
>> I transfer -10 points from me myself Turgul.
>> I transfer -106 points from me myself Uncle Psychosis.
>> If Uncle Psychosis recieved 10 points for submitting proposal 376, then I
>> transfer -10 points from myself to Uncle Psychosis.
>> I transfer -137 points from myself to Dan.
> 
> *sigh*  I think you'll find that points are objects.  You can't transfer
> things you don't have.  And Rule 18 doesn't apply because transerring of
> points between players is regulated.  I'm not even going to bother CFJing
> it as both I and the Admin know that this is illegal and therefore your
> action never happened.
> 
> Thank you for shopping at Bean's Rules Lawyers 'R Us, please come again!
> 
> Bean
> 

Alright, here's how I see it:

I had 239 points. I needed 1000 points. Thus, I owed myself 761 points, for
the ones I didn't have. So I gave those negative points to others, who then
owed me those points.

Although I suppose this is a rather eccentric way of looking at it...

Also, if my attempt did work, The Baron's attempt to take 1000 points from
me still wouldn't, 'cause my score would be zero (post-win reset). Thus,
giving -1000 points to me would reduce my score below zero, which is
illegal. (which actually seems to be a bit of a problem... If somebody CFJ'd
the Baron right now that he had Denied the Undeniable, the Judge would be
forced to judge FALSE, because it would be illegal to judge true, as that
would reduce Baron's score to negative). (Actually, that gives me an
idea...)
-- 
Wonko
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