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I kinda answered in terms of "what interpretation of the sign gives parkgoers the best overall experience". Don't legal situations generally consider the spirit

I kinda answered in terms of "what interpretation of the sign gives parkgoers the best overall experience". Don't legal situations generally consider the spirit of the law, not just the letter of the law? The HN guidelines come to mind here, they're a mix of more literal ("don't use uppercase for emphasis") and spirit/intent ("anything that good hackers would find interesting"). Seems to work here - but curious how many pedantic struggles dang & co. encounter.

Gigachad 3y ago
That kind of proves the point. The starting paragraph asked you explicitly to ignore local laws or personal beliefs and take actions based on only the most literal definition of the rule, and yet almost half of people chose to ignore this and use their own rules. Like how they do for content moderation.
- QuadrupleA 3y ago
  Well in that case the whole ruse of the park is pointless, and the game should just be "click the words that are vehicles". And matchbox cars and space stations are included.
  - Gigachad 3y ago
    That's exactly what it told the reader to do. Ignore everything else but the literal question, is it violating the rule of no vehicles in the park.
    - QuadrupleA 3y ago
      The exact phrasing in the intro is "You might know of some rule in your jurisdiction which overrides local rules, and allows certain classes of vehicles. Please disregard these rules; the park isn't necessarily in your jurisdiction." But it's still a park right? On earth? What jurisdiction on earth blocks matchbox cars and space stations? Or even ambulances and police cars, which were the main ambiguous ones? Does some country not allow ambulances in its parks? Am I supposed to include the entirety of modern human culture as we know it as a "local jurisdiction"? I don't think the intro instructions were very clear.
      - Ekaros 3y ago
        I think it is entirely reasonable to be in mind that emergency does not stop some rules. Like do we allow emergency vehicles inside shopping malls for example? As in the walkways? And if we are going to make carless cities, we should absolutely ban them also from the streets there and only allow things like stretchers to be carried through.
        QuadrupleA 3y ago
        This whole precious little webgame is about interpreting a sign in a park. Presumably a park on earth. Of course you can't park ambulances inside the crowded walkways of most shopping malls... or on the top of trees, or inside HVAC ducts, or in the intestines of parkgoers, or on the head of a pin. The number of pedantic HN bureacrats in these comments is maddening... thank god real parks (and content moderators) generally exercise some common sense.
        Gigachad 3y ago
        That's just the point of the page again. To highlight how there is no uniform agreement on if the rules should be enforced 100% to the letter, or if they can be bent when it makes sense. And even if you agree they should be bent, agreeing on exactly how is not agreed on either.

Gigachad 3y ago

That kind of proves the point. The starting paragraph asked you explicitly to ignore local laws or personal beliefs and take actions based on only the most literal definition of the rule, and yet almost half of people chose to ignore this and use their own rules. Like how they do for content moderation.

QuadrupleA 3y ago
Well in that case the whole ruse of the park is pointless, and the game should just be "click the words that are vehicles". And matchbox cars and space stations are included.
- Gigachad 3y ago
  That's exactly what it told the reader to do. Ignore everything else but the literal question, is it violating the rule of no vehicles in the park.
  - QuadrupleA 3y ago
    The exact phrasing in the intro is "You might know of some rule in your jurisdiction which overrides local rules, and allows certain classes of vehicles. Please disregard these rules; the park isn't necessarily in your jurisdiction." But it's still a park right? On earth? What jurisdiction on earth blocks matchbox cars and space stations? Or even ambulances and police cars, which were the main ambiguous ones? Does some country not allow ambulances in its parks? Am I supposed to include the entirety of modern human culture as we know it as a "local jurisdiction"? I don't think the intro instructions were very clear.
    - Ekaros 3y ago
      I think it is entirely reasonable to be in mind that emergency does not stop some rules. Like do we allow emergency vehicles inside shopping malls for example? As in the walkways? And if we are going to make carless cities, we should absolutely ban them also from the streets there and only allow things like stretchers to be carried through.
      - QuadrupleA 3y ago
        This whole precious little webgame is about interpreting a sign in a park. Presumably a park on earth. Of course you can't park ambulances inside the crowded walkways of most shopping malls... or on the top of trees, or inside HVAC ducts, or in the intestines of parkgoers, or on the head of a pin. The number of pedantic HN bureacrats in these comments is maddening... thank god real parks (and content moderators) generally exercise some common sense.
        Gigachad 3y ago
        That's just the point of the page again. To highlight how there is no uniform agreement on if the rules should be enforced 100% to the letter, or if they can be bent when it makes sense. And even if you agree they should be bent, agreeing on exactly how is not agreed on either.