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🕸Fergus Duniho wrote on Fri, Apr 27, 2018 07:16 PM UTC:

A dictatorial decree tells other people what to do. I simply spoke about what I will not be doing. A veto is the exercise of executive authority to reject a piece of legislation. I was exercising my privilege as the creator and programmer of this script to not make changes to it I'm not interested in making.

Our discussion of this involved you proposing the idea, me giving my reasons for rejecting it, and you agreeing with one of them. I expected that would end things, but other people continued to run with the idea. In the meantime, I never changed my mind about it being arbitrary, I do not believe that changing the values for win and loss would help, and I do not believe that H. G.'s proposal, which seems to involve reducing the value of a win without changing the value of a loss, would solve anything. Changing the value of one without changing the value of the other is unacceptable to me, and changing both in a way that makes the scores more drawish is also unacceptable to me. Since there is no other alternative, I don't see any way for it work. Besides that, the arbitrariness of it still doesn't sit well with me.


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