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Old Sep 8, 2020, 7:46 am
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NickB
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Originally Posted by irishguy28
"My" version of Rule 2 would see it being retrospectively applied also to these members, thereby ensuring that Rules 1 & 2 are applied to ALL members.
You don't seem to appreciate that what you describe rule 2 (nor rule 1 for that matter) has nothing to offer to Plats who have accumulated more than 300 XPs in the covid-affected membership year and leave them out in the cold. Just because you make a rule formally applicable to all members does not mean that you are not segmenting. Giving a benefit to all members who are pregnant may be formally a rule that applies to ALL members. Yet, this would not stop it establishing a segmentation on the basis of gender and age.

Your version of rule 2 may eliminate some of this aspects of the current segmentation practised by FB but it keeps others and, in particular, it keeps the segmentation which is inherent to rule 2 and I struggle to find a convincing rationale for it.
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