ronk wrote:::: comment :::
Patrice wrote: I've just a question bout the patterns Game rules
After making a submission a player may not make another submission until 10 minutes have passed and another player has made a submission. Game numbers 0 modulo 2 are lightning rounds (marked LIGHTNING) with the 10 minutes submission delay waived. In checking for consecutive posts by the same player, a syntactically correct submission is considered a submission, even if it is later tagged invalid.
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If we follow the rule in citation, this last post from ronk is not valid, because there is no submission from an other player between the two ?!
Is there a skew somewhere or did I misunderstood the rule ?
Although this may not be what
gsf intended, a submission with a mismatched Sudoku Explainer rating is obviously not treated as a "syntactically correct submission."
the cited rule was for the protection of other players who otherwise may be tricked by invalid submissions
the user of an invalid post may make a valid submission with no intervening submission without penalty
so for a player making only valid submissions, its always safe (modulo time constraints) to submit after another player has submitted (valid or not)
for the player making an invalid submission, a penalty is applied, but the player may submit again and not be penalized for consecutive entry
this needs clarification in the rules but at the moment clear language to do so escapes me
re: deleted/edited posts
it can get confusing because of the referee 5 min polling interval
some deletions/edits are caught by the referee, some are not
in this case ronk was caught
