It wasn't a moot. This reassignment was based off of an earlier recusal. On Sat, Jul 29, 2017 at 12:44 PM, Owen Jacobson <o...@grimoire.ca> wrote:
> Ah, quoting styles, one of the great old flamewars. Let’s re-light that > cautiously, shall we? > > > On Jul 24, 2017, at 3:45 PM, Alex Smith <ais...@alumni.bham.ac.uk> > wrote: > > > > I reassign CFJ 3537 to o. > > The CFJ in question is on the statement > > > There is currently more than one auction for Estates. > > > This was posited in the interval between Cuddlebeam’s message purporting > to put every estate up for auction, and subsequent CFJs determining that e > had not successfully deputized for the Surveyor. > > Given that rule 2491 (“Estate Auctions”) regulates the entire process of > auctioning an estate, I find that initiating an estate auction is also a > regulated action per the definition in rule 2125 (“Regulation > Regulations”). As r. 2491 only empowers the Surveyor to begin auctions, and > as Cuddlebeam was not the Surveyor at that time, eir attempt to place every > estate up for auction could not have succeeded, as it did not meet the > conditions necessary to permit that action under r. 2491. > > [Technically, this interpretation would appear to make it impossible for a > player to auction eir own estate. However, I believe this to be irrelevant, > as a player can _always_ transfer eir own estates by announcement, > including transfering them to the winner of an auction conducted other than > according to r. 2125.] > > While I accept P.S.S.’ arguments that the rules aspects of the original > judgement are flawed, I find that the conclusion was nonetheless correct. I > AFFIRM V.J Rada’s judgement that the statement is FALSE. > > -o > > P.S. Honourable Arbitor, it may have been useful had you spelled out that > this was a moot specifically. We don’t have those often and many players, > myself included, are unfamiliar with them. I nearly forgot to spell out > that I was AFFIRMing the most recent judgement, and instead nearly passed > judgement myself. > >
