Salad wrote, in part: > > A person qualifies for a type of Ribbon if e has earned that type > > of Ribbon within the preceding 7 days (including earlier in the > > same message). > > This excerpt can be read as merely establishing a sufficient condition. > Alternatively, if one interprets the "if" to mean "if and only if", this > condition is both sufficient and required. > > In the first case, the specification of the ribbons obviously succeeds > in causing persons to qualify. This is because the existence of a single > sufficient condition does not preclude the existence of other sufficient > conditions. > > In the second case, there is a conflict within rule 2438.
But the first reading is the more direct one and is implied by its causing no contradiction. And according to the first reading, yes, one can qualify for these ribbons -- but not earn them, which is the relevant issue to these CFJs. All the best, msh210
