On October 3 at 13:39 UTC, Benbot² sent this message: > This email declares (soon to be) player Benbot² intention to join the game > under Alias Benbot²
Other players questioned its meaning: On 2021-10-04 15:19, Sarah S. via agora-business wrote: > On Mon, Oct 4, 2021 at 12:46 AM ais523 via agora-business < > agora-business@agoranomic.org> wrote: > > > On Sun, 2021-10-03 at 09:39 -0400, BenjaminFrancis Rodriguez via agora- > > business wrote: > > > This email declares (soon to be) player Benbot² intention to join the > > > game under Alias Benbot² > > > > By the "(soon to be)", do you mean that you're joining immediately and > > are referring to the time immediately after your message? Or do you > > mean that you're planning to join in, e.g., a few days from now? > > > > -- > > ais523 > > > > > Seems ambiguous. I CFJ: Benbot is a player. This text from Rule 869 governs registration: An Unregistered person CAN (unless explicitly forbidden or prevented by the rules) register by publishing a message that indicates reasonably clearly and reasonably unambiguously that e intends to become a player at that time. No person can be a player if e is part of another player or another player is part of em. Benbot²'s message quite explicitly states eir intention to join the game, meaning to become a player. The text "(soon to be)" indicates e does not consider emself a player at the time the message was sent. This is not relevant to the above-quoted section of Rule 869, unless one wants to claim that "(soon to be)" implies Benbot² is (a) not in fact intending to register with this message, or (b) not at this time. (a) is too much of a stretch. The intention to join the game is quite explicit, leaving me to conclude that "(soon to be)" only expresses Benbot²'s own opinion that, in the ordinary course of registration, a player is not registered at the exact time the message is sent. (b) doesn't make much sense either. If Benbot²'s intended time of registration is not now, then when? Benbot² was reasonably clear and unambiguous in eir message. I judge CFJ 3932 TRUE. Note: this differs from CFJ 3789, in which Alexis's possible registration message had a clear and consistent alternative interpretation. -- Falsifian