Just because it is allowed in one location, does not mean that it is not still an abuse. ---- Publius Scribonius Scholasticus p.scribonius.scholasti...@gmail.com
> On Jun 29, 2017, at 9:14 AM, Alex Smith <ais...@alumni.bham.ac.uk> wrote: > > On Thu, 2017-06-29 at 08:58 -0700, Publius Scribonius Scholasticus > wrote: >> I issue a Pink Slip to ais523 for abuse of his office as Arbiter. He >> had unduly assigned CFJs to himself in an inequitable manner, which >> has not assigned judgements in such a way that "interested players >> have reasonably equal opportunities to judge.”, as required by Rule >> 991. > > This is actually the exact opposite of the situation the rule was > envisaged for. > > "Reasonably equal opportunities to judge" requires giving each judge > approximately the same number of CFJs over time. On that reasoning, the > only eligible judges were me, omd, and V.J. Rada. I felt that assigning > the CFJs to myself would be simplest as there was uncertainty over > their quantity and existence, and being the Arbitor, I would be able to > number them as soon as I was sure whether they existed. > > Rule 991 also explicitly gives the Arbitor permission to make biased > judge assignments, in terms of trying to influence the outcome of the > CFJ. I haven't used this and don't intend to use it, but even if I were > biased in the assignment of judges, that wouldn't technically be an > abuse of the office. > > -- > ais523
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