spoon-discuss: RE: spoon-business: Judgment on CFJ 388

["Gavin Doig" <gmd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Ruling: FALSE
>
> Analysis: Cloudy though the wording of the original rule may be, 
> it seems fairly clear to me that the intention was to use the 
> haiku as an introduction, and the prose paragraph as a full 
> explanation.  The prose paragraph seems clear to me: "earns 10 
> Score points _if the proposal is adopted_" (emphasis mine). 
>
That may well have been the intention, but I think it's a very poor precedent to use the *intention* of a rule, when than what it actually *says* contradicts it.

Appeal forthcoming (can I do that when the clock is stopped?).

uin.
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