On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 2:40 PM, Henri Bouchard <[email protected]> wrote: > S T A T E M E N T > ----------------- > > Scshunt, the Promotor, for violating Rule 1607 (Distribution) > for violating Rule 2143 (Official Reports and Duties), and for > committing the Class-2 Crime of Tardiness, deserves to be awarded > a punishment no less severe than a Yellow Card.
Arguments: As stated in Rule 1023, Agoran weeks begin on Mondays, not Tuesdays. The caller did indeed publish a message at the stated time (although that's not the one e labeled as a CoE - not that it matters), but it was well after the Promotor's deadline for distributing the proposal. Accordingly, while scshunt indeed committed the mentioned violations, they should be treated as a regular error, not an "aggravated" one made in spite of warnings. The fact that e distributed the rest of the proposals less than 4 hours before the deadline could count against em, since there was no reasonable chance for a warning, although tightly meeting deadlines is not usually considered a problem*; in any case, eir failure to do so in the last 3 days or do (despite incessant reminders) is not particularly significant. That said, as the precedent of the recent Referee case reminds us, the Referee's behavior is almost entirely discretionary, so it doesn't matter what e deserves; this case should be DISMISSed as irrelevant. * That is, a legal problem. I think delaying the proposal system this way can and should be addressed through elections (no offense to scshunt personally, I'm sure e's busy with Real Life), especially as e holds both Promotor and Assessor, but I suppose the way to address that would have been to nominate myself in one of the elections that just ended. H. Henri, why not intend to deputise? :P - operationally meaningful designation
