oof, also my apologies for the walls of text. i'm playing with gmail's plain text editor and the input box doesn't automatically line break for me. those paragraphs are...denser than expected.
-grok On Tue, Jun 20, 2017 at 10:51 AM, grok (caleb vines) <grokag...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Jun 20, 2017 at 10:24 AM, Publius Scribonius Scholasticus > <p.scribonius.scholasti...@googlemail.com> wrote: >> You can not flip a switch to a value that the switch already held or at >> least that would make sense. >> ---- >> Publius Scribonius Scholasticus >> p.scribonius.scholasti...@gmail.com > > > I don't see any text in the ruleset that would make me believe a > switch cannot be flipped to the value it is currently set to. > Especially since "Flip" is a term of art defined textually, not > contextually. In casual and contextual cases, "flip" usually indicates > multiple exclusive states that can only be modified by changing from > one state to another [1]. However, the ruleset definition of "flip" > indicates to me that switches can be "flipped" to any legal value, > including their current value. The exact language, > >>>"To flip an instance of a switch" is to make it come to have a given value. > > makes me believe that a switch can be flipped to any of the switch's > legal values. As long as it comes to have the given value, it's a > legal change. In this case, the player flipping the switch is just > making it come to have the given value of "player," and it is > coincidental that its current value is also "player." If the textual > definition of "flip a switch" made the switch come to have a DIFFERENT > value, I would agree. But right now, all I see is that "flipping a > switch" just means "setting the value," rather than "changing the > value." Adding "different" may be a good decision in the future. > > There are immediate possible impacts on registration date in this > specific scenario. Not a big thing in the current ruleset but it could > affect one's ability to give and receive white ribbons. Could also > make a player subject to any "new player restrictions" like the ones > that used to exist and have been discussed now. > > Curiously, the ruleset used to have language specifically stating that > only non-players could register (R869/9 and R869/17), but that > language has been lost over time.[2] > > > [1]: I concede that, in some contexts, "flip" means "to rotate an > object along its horizontal axis." > [2]: https://faculty.washington.edu/kerim/nomic/cases/?1648 > > > On Tue, Jun 20, 2017 at 10:25 AM, Publius Scribonius Scholasticus > <p.scribonius.scholasti...@googlemail.com> wrote: >> I recommend that the Referee accept this apology and issue a green card if >> any card. >> ---- >> Publius Scribonius Scholasticus >> p.scribonius.scholasti...@gmail.com > > > If I were a player, I would recommend avoiding punishment absent a CFJ > indicating that omd actually committed an infraction. But I'm not, so > idk. Maybe someone else would make that recommendation on my behalf. > > > -grok
