Re: [s-d] [s-b] Agora & B

["Jamie Dallaire" <bad.leprechaun@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Nov 25, 2007 7:36 PM, Daniel Lepage <dplepage@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> The consultation is not malformed; consultation 006 established that
> a consultation with a statement as its question implicitly asks
> whether that statement is true or false.


Don't worry. I didn't mean that the consultation was malformed in that
sense. I meant that its author clearly asked the opposite of what he meant
to ask, and rendered his question almost meaningless by doing so:

"Registrar Wooble does not have the power to allow Agora to become a player
by
Rule 1-4"

Really no one cares whether Wooble can allow Agora to become a player. The
question at hand is whether Wooble can DISallow Agora to become a player, as
made clear by pikhq's more recent consultation.

Billy Pilgrim

>
>
> See <http://b.nomic.net/index.php/Consultations/0006>.
>
> --
> Wonko
>
> On Nov 25, 2007, at 11:03 AM, Jamie Dallaire wrote:
>
> > And now ttpf:
> >
> > This is Consultation Number 44, which I ZOT for including a malformed
> > question and because the Supplicant has requested that the
> > Consultation be
> > retracted (which, as far as I know, is impossible).
> >
> > Billy Pilgrim
> >
> > On Nov 25, 2007 11:02 AM, Jamie Dallaire <bad.leprechaun@xxxxxxxxx>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> On Nov 24, 2007 7:03 PM, Josiah Worcester <josiahw@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>
> >>> I ask for consultation on the following:
> >>> {
> >>> Registrar Wooble does not have the power to allow Agora to become a
> >>> player by
> >>> Rule 1-4
> >>> }
> >>> Unbeliever: Wooble
> >>> Arguments: "The Registrar may refuse to allow any External Force to
> >>> become a
> >>> player, and may refuse to recognize any otherwise-legal name
> >>> change, if
> >>> e
> >>> believes the External Force's proposed name (or existing player's
> >>> new
> >>> name)
> >>> would be ambiguous or confusing, or could otherwise damage the
> >>> integrity
> >>> of
> >>> this game."
> >>> This does not give the Registrar carte blanche license to refuse
> >>> a new
> >>> player:
> >>> this only gives the Registrar the power to refuse a name that is
> >>> ambiguous,
> >>> confusing, or damages the integrity of the game. Since Agora is
> >>> none of
> >>> these, the Registrar does not have the power to refuse Agora's
> >>> status as
> >>> a
> >>> player under this rule.
> >>> There is no other rule that gives the Registrar the power to
> >>> refuse a
> >>> new
> >>> player.
> >>
> >>
> >> This is Consultation Number 44, which I ZOT for including a malformed
> >> question and because the Supplicant has requested that the
> >> Consultation be
> >> retracted (which, as far as I know, is impossible).
> >>
> >> Billy Pilgrim
> >>
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