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Writing Terms and Conditions is like programming. You have to think of even unimaginable scenarios or face consequences.
by elcct 11y ago
Writing Terms and Conditions is like programming. You have to think of even unimaginable scenarios or face consequences.
- dpflan 11y agoThis is a good point that may elucidate how such things are tested: someone conjures up the 'contract' / terms and conditions, then what? Is there a suite of 'unit tests' for the conditions, then a QA department? I imagine there is (or was) an economic analysis of this that leads to the decision to apply human resources elsewhere within the company. The 'loss' from a few exploiters must be probabilistically low and does yield publicity / free advertising (right?).
- smackfu 11y agoAnd the tricky bit for something like this is that the terms and conditions have to match the programming, otherwise someone might exploit the programming, even though you wrote bulletproof t&c.
- ubernostrum 11y agoThe general way out for the airlines is that the terms give them the right to unilaterally change the terms at any time, or terminate membership in a program at any time.
- pjmorris 11y agoToo bad there's not a fuzzer for English.
- 1_player 11y agoIt's called a lawyer.
- georgeott 11y agoI think adding "Limit: One rental per day" would have solved this problem.