Not that long ago there was a complaint that it was too hard to read the long OGS Terms and Conditions in order to find out if you are allowed to cheat or harass people at OGS or not.
Why not? Let’s say in Clean Air Land you agree not to fart intentionally or unintentionally. Person A farts intentionally and is thrown out. Person B farts unintentionally and is also thrown out, because they agreed not to fart intentionally or unintentionally.
How can I cheat in go besides knowing who’s connection is worse for time tesuji? If its AI make the leela bot alert of games where it finds players that play suspiciously close to her ideas, then it is anulled.
collusion, where players form a team and agree to lose to each other so that one of them will win. I’ve also seen this done by the same person using alternate accounts.
sandbagging, where a player deliberately keeps their rating low to play ranked games against lower rated players.
airbagging, where a player plays stupid moves to goad their opponents into resigning as a waste of their time.
score phase cheating, where a player mis-marks stone status and the other player inadvertently accepts the result.
time cheating, where a player returns to play after a few minutes’ absence to steal the win when the other player thought the game was abandoned.
assistance, where a player takes advice on move choices during a game or allows a stronger player to move for them.
various combinations of these acts, and others I can’t think of right now.
I doubt I have to enumerate all the reasons why appeal to popularity is fallacious.
And yes, you can write a text that contains the words “I agree to” and then follow it up with nonsense, that is entirely feasible. You can not, however, if you’re acting in good faith, ask from others to “not unintentionally” do anything. What you’re doing there is to try to escape the rather difficult task to prove intent. That’s all it is.
No, that’s not what you’re saying. If that’s what you meant to say, that’s what you should replace it with.
More accurate would be “You accept that we reserve judgement on whether you did the thing, and if we deem you to have done the thing, regardless of intent, we can/may/will throw you out.”
Rest assured, any appeal to popularity was “unintentional.”
What I meant to show by the link was that the phrasing in our TOS is boilerplate. In other words, it’s standard language that courts have upheld as having a particular legal meaning, even if we can’t agree among ourselves that the phrasing actually makes sense.