eliakon wrote:Eagle wrote:Killer Cyborg wrote:Eagle wrote:Killer Cyborg wrote:Good posts, as always, Prysus.
My view:
If there was a law firm that had on their website a "Frequently Asked Legal Questions" section,
If they had those questions answered by volunteers without any law degree,
If those volunteers sometimes--when confronted by a question that they personally knew of no legal answer to--simply made up new laws that didn't exist anywhere on the official books,
Then I would agree that those volunteers would count as representatives of the law firm in question, for the purposes of any lawsuit against the firm based on the poor/inaccurate quality of the FALQ.
But their answers would still be rather meaningless when it came to determining what the law actually is, technically "official" or not.
Sure, but the law firm doesn't determine what the law is. Palladium does determine what the rules of Palladium games are.
Right--Palladium.
Not random volunteers who often don't know what they're talking about, even if Palladium posts their thoughts.
Again, the current FAQ is answered by consensus of forum posters who show up to give their opinions.
It has zero bearing on what Palladium's rules are.
No, now you're doubling back and ignoring my initial post. I've already covered that.
If there's a FAQ on the Palladium website, and it's on its own page or stickied or whatever, and appears to look official, then it basically is official. What happened behind the curtain to get the FAQ up there is irrelevant. This wasn't something that was posted for 3 days after their site was hacked until they could get it taken down. This is something that has existed for well over a decade, as I understand it. Palladium is either well aware of it, or they should be well aware of it. There's tacit approval there by the company.
Again why?
You wanting something to be canon doesn't make it canon.
Simply because Palladium made it available does not make it official. To be official it needs to be, wait for it, declared official.
That is why some things ARE stated to be official. Because the default condition is that things are not official.
You NOT wanting something to be canon doesn't make it not canon either.
Yes when Palladium posts something on its site unless it explicitly says it isn't official it's official. NOBODY goes onto a site, sees a section labeled FAQ and thinks 'well those answers to those questions aren't canon, it doesn't say that they're official' because the default is that they ARE in fact official answers/responses regarding those questions. It's the entire POINT of a FAQ section, to give official answers to frequently asked questions so people can find the official answer to them in a convenient location.