Originally Posted by
NickB
But why do this?
Because it's objectively unfair to treat one set of Platinums (qualifying year ending March-June 2020) in a completely different manner to the other set of Platinums (qualifying year ending July 2020- Feb 2021); particularly when the most recent change was brought in to address the challenge that certain Platinums were being treated unfairly in the first place!
The first set only have Rule 1 applied; the latter have both Rules 1 & 2 applied.
Originally Posted by
NickB
Why hyper-segment minuscule sub-categories (special rule for one-legged divorced Platinum members who do not own a black cat and whose birthday in 2017 was not on a full moon will be credited with 147 XPs)
That's missing the point - rather than "hyper-sgementing", my proposal is that Rule 2 be applied to ALL platinums, not just those having a qualification date falling in the 8 months specified.