FW: RE: [s-d] Eligibility for Legislator of the Nweek

[flutesultan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]

Sorry Peter, meant to bounce to discuss.
Triller


> [Original Message]
> From: <flutesultan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <pete+bnomic@xxxxxxxxxxxxx (Peter Cooper Jr.)>
 > Date: 7/26/05 5:21:00 PM
> Subject: RE: [s-d] Eligibility for Legislator of the Nweek
>
> #1: After rereading both applicable rules numerous times, I too am
inclined to lean toward the third interpretation. It's tricky, because 3-3
applies as well. Proposals become historical at the end of the nWeek, same
time you become Senator. 
> #2: I think your nWeeks in #1 are one off (it's 94.12 now).
> #3: Wonko has voted FOR on all his proposals, which by 3-19 e cannot.
> Triller
> 
> 
> > [Original Message]
> > From: <pete+bnomic@xxxxxxxxxxxxx (Peter Cooper Jr.)>
> > To: <spoon-discuss@xxxxxxxxx>
>  > Date: 7/26/05 4:11:17 PM
> > Subject: [s-d] Eligibility for Legislator of the Nweek
> >
> > Wonko is currently the only Senator.
> > I will become a Senator at the end of the nweek.
> > 
> > Rule 3-17, on Legislator of the Nweek, says that "Only proposals made
> > by Senators can be selected this way".
> > 
> > I see three possible interpretations:
> > 
> > #1: The player must have been a Senator at the time the proposal was
made.
> > 
> > This would mean that I am not eligible for LotN at the beginning of
> > next nweek, since I was not a Senator when I made my proposals that
> > are now being voted on. Furthermore, the proposals that I've already
> > made this nweek (93), which will be voted next nweek (94), won't be
> > counted in the eligibility for LotN for the following nweek (95).
> > Although, anything I propose next nweek (and probably also if I amend
> > any proposals next nweek, since that's resubmitting them) would be.
> > 
> > #2: The player must have been a Senator the prior nweek.
> > 
> > This would mean that I'm not eligible for LotN at the beginning of
> > next nweek as well, although I would be the following week, for all of
> > my props. This may be what was intended, but I think it's the
> > interpretation least supported by the text of the rule.
> > 
> > #3: The player needs to be a Senator at the time the LotN is chosen.
> > 
> > This would make all of my props this nweek, as well as Wonko's,
> > eligible for the LotN selection at the beginning of next nweek. (I
> > become a Senator at the end of this nweek according to r3-19, and the
> > selection is done at the beginning of next nweek according to r3-17,
> > and I think it's pretty reasonable that everything at the end of this
> > nweek has to happen before things at the beginning of next nweek).
> > 
> > I'm currently leaning toward the third interpretation, which obviously
> > benefits me the most next nweek, but I think it's also closest to
> > what the text of the rule says. However, if it is the third case, then
> > Wonko is the LotN this nweek, since e became a Senator at the end of
> > last nweek, and my statement at the start of the nweek that there was
> > no LotN this nweek was wrong.
> > 
> > Or maybe there's another possibility I missed. Thoughts?
> > 
> > -- 
> > Peter C.
> > "If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it
> > would be a merrier world."
> > 		-- J. R. R. Tolkien
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