On Mon, 9 Mar 2009, comex wrote: > On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 1:49 PM, Kerim Aydin <ke...@u.washington.edu> wrote: >> Gratuitous response: >> >> The text of Rule 2234 is "performed duties related to the contest in a timely >> manner". There are two ways to read this. The first (which ais523 argues >> for) is that "if the contest currently mandates no duties, then the >> contestmaster performs them by doing nothing." What I argue for is the >> interpretation "If no or negligible duties have been performed, then the >> contestmaster has not in fact performed duties, as performing an empty set of >> duties is the same as not performing duties, even if that empty set is in >> keeping with the contract text". > > In my opinion, if it had said "all duties", ais523's argument would be > valid; as it is, I think the best interpretation (considering that 'in > a timely manner' is located at the end and vaguely defined) is that > the contestmaster is merely required to perform some duties related to > the contest-- not necessarily all, but e gets no points if e performed > no duties even if no duties are required of em.
That's where subjectivity comes in. I modified the BF Joust website a bit and played with some suggested options in code, then got kinda busy before I was sure I got the bugs fixed. I also posted some requests for ideas for the new rounds. The current "between-tournament" contest rules don't require me to do anything. So have I done "some duties" as in enough to get points? I'm personally not saying that I have, as I haven't really "run a contest" last month, though it's possible I've spend as much time on this as ais523, for example, has spend on Enigma. (And like Enigma, one reason I ended the previous round is I got no new submissions from Contestants for a couple weeks). -Goethe
