Adam Beneschan
6/11/2012 7:32:00 PM
On Monday, June 11, 2012 11:43:31 AM UTC-7, Barry Margolin wrote:
> Dave Flower wrote:
>
> > On Monday, 11 June 2012 16:22:25 UTC+1, Marc Allen wrote:
> > > > OK, you keep saying this, and we keep telling you you're wrong, so
> > > > just cite chapter and verse in the laws. The problem is, that while
> > > > you really should act as if you're behind screens, you DO in fact hear
> > > > his lack of an alert, and now you have UI, and have to deal with it in
> > > > accordance with the law.
> > >
> > > Citing chapter and verse doesn't help. This is a matter of interpretation.
> > > The law doesn't require that I pass. It requires that I take the majority
> > > action of my peers in the same auction with no UI. Or at least attempt to.
> > >
> > The Law does not require you to take the majority action of your peers - it
> > is more restrictive than that. If the majority of your peers reqard an action
> > as a Logical Alternative (even if they do not select it), then you may not
> > take the action
>
> Actually, it's somewhere in between. An LA is something that a
> significant number of peers would consider, and some would choose.
>
> So if a majority would consider it, but they would ALL dismiss it, then
> it's not actually an LA. Although it seems unlikely that something
> would be reasonable enough that a majority would consider it, yet still
> be so unreasonable that none would choose it.
It doesn't seem unlikely to me. Sometimes you have to give an action some consideration in order to realize that it doesn't make any sense. Not every action that is wrong is blindingly obviously wrong. By the way, the Law says that a majority of players would have to "seriously consider" it.
-- Adam