Explicit author vote

The timer was lowered to 10 from 30.  You can’t have 30 in base 2.

though this is pretty much one person’s word against another, and I’m picking the higher potential fun factor - saying it’s in base 2 is iffy and not stated in the ruleset, and decreeing as the Commander is meaningless.

The Boom rule shows that the bomb is in at least base 4.

“The timer starts at 30.”

Oh, and the agreement of two admins means very little.

Except that voters had a chance to defeat the proposal knowing how administrators would interpret the timer, and they chose to pass it. The interpretation wasn’t decreed after the fact, it was made with explicit voter consent.

I’m not convinced that the base of the timer’s numbering system can’t change over time. It could have started with 4, as I initially posted, and moved to 2 later. I plan on voting FOR your proposal to define everything as base 10 when this closes.

I agree with jay.  The timer started at base 4 and changed to base 2 when the proposal passed.  The Commander’s decree that the timer is base 10 is now in effect, but it came too late to save the timer from becoming 1.

wow did i ever stir the pot when i was on yesterday eh? srry rod but

The ruleset also does not provide for any Administrators to “declare” special interpretations of the ruleset. Also, the agreement of the second administrator was shortly before the closing of the vote, allowing very little time for any objection from anyone who had seen that there was any support for such a movement. Regardless, a Call for Judgment should have been posted on that occasion anyways.

COV

I just realized that this is a very dangerous precedent to set.  Anyone can declare that their interpretation of a particular section of the ruleset means anything they want, including that they have achieved victory.  This is an extreme case but is still a dangerous precedent.

You know, if the counter changes before this passes or fails, this will have no effect.

Obviously the current posted timer would be declared inaccurate, and we’d be subtracting 1 from 1.

Live by the cheap win, die by the cheap win.

No, the current posted timer would end up going to 8, causing this to be unable to change it to 1.

It would require another RfJ to point out that 8 isn’t a binary number unless you turn it sideways, including a rider clarifying the correct timer value of zero.

You know I’m just messing with you right?

Yes, I do know.

However, good sir, there is no such thing as an RfJ, and therefore your last comment is a failure.

for logic’s sake

To 8 And Beyond!