Rule 1209 (Geoff: Change) Changing Chatham's Judgement.
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# Change
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Statement (for Change of Judgement):
Geoff's action in proposing proposal 1044 was in violation of the
rules.
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(Old Verdict was TRUE with default (all) scope)
Verdict: FALSE.
Scope: 1035.
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Reasons (not part of the official judgement):
My action in proposing 1044 was NOT in violation of the rules as they
stood then; the issue was resolved then and should not have been changed
now. Why? Although early decision had passed (1012) the implementation
(ie. early decision detection) was not 100% accurate reflection
of the rule (ps. rendell programmed it - not me!). This lead to confusion
about whether a not a rule had actually reached early decision.
When I made the proposal 1044 the seconding rule (1035) had not
been passed. Whether or not it should have been passed via early
decision will never be known - how many people did vote in those last
few minutes? We'll never know for certain. Hence I my proposal
1044 was fully legal since 1035 had NOT been enacted (whether or not
this was an error - the voting period had not been terminated;
hence 1035 was still merely a proposal).
Notice the CFJ was about me making the proposal - NOT about the voting
period on 1035.
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Furthermore I urge new players especially to vote for this change
of judgement to discourage further such (ridiculous) attempts at
rewriting history (I believe Joev wasn't even registered at this time!).
The situation was resolved then and we should (effectively) keep
that resolution.
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# Seconds Storm
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