Call for Judgment: Starting to build up a corpus of case law
Passes 6-0. Enacted by Brendan.
Adminned at 18 Jan 2025 23:38:58 UTC
The Rebuilt Team has scored. JonathanDark first changed ‘result’ into ‘rebult’ in the rule The Crew, and then used the typo correction provision of Spelling and Formating to correct Rebult to Rebuilt.
Said provision reads:
Participants may correct obvious spelling, punctuation, typographical, and/or formatting mistakes in the Ruleset, the Building Blocks page, and their own Pending Votable Matters at any time, including replacing Spivak and gender-specific pronouns that refer to Participants with the corresponding forms of the singular ‘they’.
This CfJ asserts that ‘rebult’ is not an obvious typo for ‘rebuilt’ (it could equally validly be ‘rebut’ or ‘revolt’ or ‘rebel’ or, indeed, ‘result’, the word from which it was derived), and for a spelling mistake to qualify as a mistake it has to have been unintentional; crafting one deliberately may or may not be an appendix scam but either way it probably isn’t properly a mistake. Therefore, revert the change made in this wiki edit and revert any Triumph gains awarded on the basis of the term ‘rebuilt’ having appeared in the ruleset, and reinstate each Participant’s Target as of this wiki edit.
Yeah, mistakes tend to need to be unintentional in some way and changing letters for an objective doesn’t fit the bill.
Who said mistakes have to be unintentional? I make deliberate mistakes all the time when writing proposals.
ais523: Custodian
I think this raises interesting conceptual questions about what a typo is, but I’m leaning towards Josh on this one – the typo in question was clearly introduced intentionally, and therefore is not a mistake.
FWIW, “s” is nowhere near “b” on the keyboard, but “u” is a very plausible typo for “ui” given that “u” and “i” are next to each other – if we made the assumption that this were a typo, “rebuilt” would be the primary possibility because other possibilities would require hitting a key on the keyboard that is too far away. But the “mistake” definition seems clear enough to override all that.