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Posted by xorxes on Thu 23 of Oct, 2003 23:09 GMT posts: 1912

...the jatna has absolutely nothing against any change that ..., ... the jatna thinks that..., ...and the jatna doesn't like it very much either.

Is Nick still the jatna, and Robin is writing this on his behalf? Is the position vacant and these are proclivities that whoever holds the office must have? Or is Robin the new jatna and we haven't been told about it yet?

Posted by rlpowell on Thu 23 of Oct, 2003 23:12 GMT posts: 14214

On Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 04:09:02PM -0700, wikidiscuss@lojban.org wrote:
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> Re:BPFK Procedures
>
> ''...the jatna has absolutely nothing against any change that
> ..., ... the jatna thinks that..., ...and the jatna
> doesn't like it very much either''.
>
> Is Nick still the jatna, and Robin is writing this on his behalf?
> Is the position vacant and these are proclivities that whoever
> holds the office must have? Or is Robin the new jatna and we
> haven't been told about it yet?

Robin is almost without question going to be the new jatna as of
about tomorrow. Robin just explained this to the bpfk-announce
list.

-Robin

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Posted by xorxes on Thu 23 of Oct, 2003 23:33 GMT posts: 1912

> Robin is almost without question going to be the new jatna as of
> about tomorrow. Robin just explained this to the bpfk-announce
> list.

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On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 3:59 PM, arj <wikidiscuss@lojban.org> wrote:
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> I worry because, if sometime in the future someone wants to know what the BPFK thinks about some minor peripheral matter, such as what "je'e do'u pei" means, they will find that the BPFK is silent.

I think we usually base our decisions on four pillars:

(1) Baseline.
(2) Usage.
(3) Usefulness.
(4) Coherence.

When all criteria agree, all is well. Fortunately that is the most common case.

When different criteria point in different directions, even when we
can agree about what each criterion would suggest, we often disagree
about the weight we give to each. I tend to go with (4) > (3) > (2) >
(1), but others tend to prefer the exact opposite order, and others
will give the most weight to (2) or to (3). And of course sometimes we
don't even seem to agree about what each criterion by itself suggests.

It seems to me that the requirement of almost unanimity practically
entails that the BPFK will have to remain silent on some issues.

mu'o mi'e xorxes