[quote author=Hatred link=topic=570.msg5996#msg5996 date=1327219625]<br />23:46:48&nbsp; &lt;HateDaddy&gt;	upload week 2 demo JEKR<br />01:12:07&nbsp; &lt;MassVC&gt;	yeah i don&#039;t have one of those<br /><br />Yeah...dude should have had served a 3 minute infraction for week 3 and still played knowing this...should definitely get another infraction on top of that considering he&#039;s a board member. No excuse..<br />[/quote]<br /><br />[quote author=BloodStrike link=topic=570.msg5997#msg5997 date=1327221785]<br />Hmm. I wonder if anybody will do anything about this issue....It&#039;s interesting that these kinds of things can occur within the administration, yet nobody gets punished..Just another thing wrong with this league..&nbsp; ::)<br />[/quote]<br /><br />So I just got off the phone with Bones and it turns out I was supposed to serve my penalty.&nbsp; I was certain until just now that I was going to serve it next week because A.) that is the only reasonable decision to make and, more importantly, B.) Bones didn&#039;t tell me that he decided unreasonably.&nbsp; In fact, since Bones and I are the only people who can &quot;enforce&quot; penalties, and he didn&#039;t tell me to serve it (to enforce it), there was no way I was going to.&nbsp; Let me explain my reasoning.<br /><br />[b]&quot;Why [i]wouldn&#039;t[/i] you serve it?&quot;[/b]<br /><br />So, upon reading Hatred&#039;s thread (by the way, thank you, Hatred, for compiling an easily readable list of missing demos) I thought to myself, &quot;When [i]is[/i] the cutoff date for missing demos?&quot;&nbsp; Just to refresh everyone&#039;s memory, the rules work like this:<br /><br />[code]Each player that plays in a round, no matter the length of time, is required to submit a demo either by Wednesday of the following week, or before their team&#039;s next game, whichever comes first.[/code]<br /><br />This week, all games were scheduled after Tuesday night, so the deadline for demo submission should have been Tuesday night.&nbsp; Needless to say, there were technical difficulties with stats and the deadline had to be moved forward.&nbsp; So, when was it forward to?<br /><br />Hatred&#039;s post was made early Saturday morning.&nbsp; If demos had to be in by Friday night, then everybody on the list (including me) should have served a penalty.&nbsp; Everyone on the list did not serve a penalty (including, say, Tai during our match), so that must not be the deadline.&nbsp; If demos had to be in by Saturday night, then our game was before that, and I wouldn&#039;t have been in violation of anything (whether it was inevitable that I was going to be or not).&nbsp; That being the so (penalties were not served by Tai, Chaindude, Whiteboy, etc.), I thought, the latter must be the case.&nbsp; Therefore I intended to serve my penalty during week 4 as soon as the violation set in.<br /><br />It turns out that, unannounced, Bones (whose decision this is) decided to make the demo submission deadline different for each player, that is, .&nbsp; I want to publicly say that that is a terrible decision, and that the deadline should be the same for every player (as it is in the rules).&nbsp; If you have to move the deadline up, fine, but move it up uniformly, and not more for some people and less for others.&nbsp; That is, like, categorically unfair.&nbsp; If there ever were a good reason to have different deadlines for different players, it should at least be based on the time of their previous game (the game for which the demo is) and not their following game.<br /><br />Nevertheless, I didn&#039;t choose not to serve my penalty in protest.&nbsp; I did it for the reasons above and because I had heard no differently from the commissioner.&nbsp; He told me about his decision for the first time at like 8 PM today, 24 hours after my match.&nbsp; I just assumed he was going to make a fair decision on the matter; guess I was wrong!&nbsp; But, since I didn&#039;t have any information to go on, I also did the most prudent thing I possibly could have done.<br /><br />A thought for the future: if you are confused and frustrated, consider asking questions to the relevant individuals instead of flapping your (delicious) gums in outrage.&nbsp; Ex., &quot;Mass, why didn&#039;t you serve a penalty?&quot;&nbsp; I would be honored to edify you with my vast body of knowledge.<br /><br />TL;DR I&#039;m going to serve my penalty during my week 4 game like I&#039;ve been planning on doing all week.&nbsp; Chill out slut.<br />