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Rule 212

When Judgment has been invoked, the next player may not begin his or her turn without the consent of a majority of the other players

Judgement has been invoked twice during turn 305, which is now over following AAA's judgement, therefore a majority of players must consent to move on to turn 306.

Given the judgment I think this vote is unnecessary, unless bonobo rules he isn't the judge.

This vote has no legally binding consequences and can be safely ignored.

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As AAA was never asked to judge the need for a vote to move on, everything he has said on that issue is noise. There is no reason to pay it the least attention.

If there is a desire to remove the need for consent to move on, then any player is welcome to put forward a proposal to that effect. Otherwise, rule 212, as written, stands.

This vote comes after the end of AAA's judgment process. There is a window of time between AAA's end of tenure and the beginning of the next term, in which players can vote to override. The sitting judge can't possibly say, "I am unchallengeable". The end of this period is what we're voting on.

Such is the rule of law.

I previously thought the same thing, but now I think AAA is operating within the rules. I see where he's coming from now.

Rule 212 says "the next player may not begin his or her turn without the consent of a majority of the other players."

AAA is not contradicting that. His ruling was that we were to move on without a vote. There are other ways of determining if the majority consent to move on, one being to ask for objections. If there are no objections, consent is implied.

Rule 212 also allows players to overrule a judge's decision by unanimous decision. Presumably, one who disagreed with moving on to the next turn would also be attempting to overrule the decision, and would have to say something in the forum to that effect.

AAA's ruling is that our method of determining consent shall be to move on to the next turn, barring objection of the majority of players. If (not (the majority of players object)) then (the majority of players consent). Therefore, a formal vote is not required (and specifically directed not to occur).

AAA convinced me too, I think it was a very clever reading of the law that allows us to speed things up immensely. He's positively Talmudic in his wisdom.

ctmf: AAA was never asked to judge what constitutes consent to move on after a judgement invocation. Therefore, he cannot, by rule 212, make any decision on that issue. I agree that we don't need a vote, but if we are going to determine consent by lack of objections, then I think we need to wait for a significant time and we need to make it clear that lack of objections within that time frame indicates consent. AAA is attempting to move immediately from his judgement ending 305 to 306 without asking for or allowing time for objections.

I consent to move on to turn 306, regardless of whether or not such consent has any legal effect.