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Old 11-30-2006, 03:23 PM   #219
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You can't put a player's name in all capital letters. If you capitalize letters that aren't capitalized, or don't capitalize letters are supposed to be, you have not written someone's proper name.

You are "The Saucepan Man". Neither "the saucepan man", "tHe saucePan maN", nor "THE SAUCEPAN MAN" is your name. "Philip" is my name. Neither "philip", "pHiLiP", nor "PHILIP" is my name. And "Bethberry" is not the proper name of "Bêthberry" because the "e" is wrong.

The only votes that count have the accurate and full name of the player as given on Fea's list of players.

Yes, yes, there is wiggle room for interpretation, but surely you understand my position.
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votes should have been cast precisely in the manner identified in Fea's example
Ah, but if you get "precise" to the point that things begin to be wrong (i.e. not using player's proper names), then you have exceeded the bounds of precision intended by the rules.

I mean, if the point was absolute adherence, all of our votes would be for ++PLAYER NAME, for that is exactly how Fea posted it. But of course that would make for a pointless and ridiculous game, lynching "Player Name" every day. A common sense line must be drawn somewhere, and that line for me would be drawn before crossing into the realm of getting names wrong through incorrect capitalization.
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