How to handle precedents

Pharaoh Atem: Tesla, be quiet.
! TechGenusFan !: he!
Cesaritoqw: Omfg D:
! TechGenusFan !: btw all staff of dn is here
! TechGenusFan !: you see is not easy
Cesaritoqw: I see
Pharaoh Atem: This call has a special issue that many people are not equipped to deal with
Pharaoh Atem: it's an issue one often doesn't face unless he is an RL judge
Pharaoh Atem: Tesla, Cesar, you two will be silent while I explain the situation. No exceptions, and the appeal train stops with me.
Cesaritoqw: If worth something, in the watchers chat there's a witness
Cesaritoqw: Okay
Pharaoh Atem: Irrelevant, I already know the situation in full detail, replete with timestamp.
Cesaritoqw: Okay
Pharaoh Atem: Neither of you have been properly passing the right to act back and forth
Pharaoh Atem: this sets a bad precedent
Pharaoh Atem: but one that must continue to be observed in this game until you both learn to pass the right to act back and forth properly
Pharaoh Atem: also btw I was going to go to sleep but they called me in
Pharaoh Atem: so be grateful
Cesaritoqw: Sowy :3
Cesaritoqw: so how we can go on?
Pharaoh Atem: you will go on when I am finished
Pharaoh Atem: I am not finished
Cesaritoqw: Ok...
Pharaoh Atem: Now, in proper gameplay, players're obligated to follow proper protocol regarding the right to act
Pharaoh Atem: it is impossible for two players to act at the same time: at each given moment only ONE player may act
Pharaoh Atem: this entire situation is born of a giant car crash of sorts wherein you both tried to get what you want out of a play, and we can't have that.
Pharaoh Atem: Konami has provided ygo players across the world with a chart that can be used to understand how ygo works
Pharaoh Atem: http://www.yugioh-card.com/en/gameplay/images/T-Flowchart_EN-US.jpg
Pharaoh Atem: you are obligated now to save this chart.
Pharaoh Atem: read it once I am done here.
Pharaoh Atem: Now then
Pharaoh Atem: to explain here
Pharaoh Atem: I have to first explain how proper play would've handled this turn
Pharaoh Atem: and then explain why that doesn't work here.
Pharaoh Atem: in proper play, you'd start your turn
Pharaoh Atem: conduct your normal draw
Pharaoh Atem: see if anyone had a response to the draw
Pharaoh Atem: ask to end the draw phase
Pharaoh Atem: start the standby
Pharaoh Atem: ask to end the standby
Pharaoh Atem: start the main
Pharaoh Atem: and then NS Retiarii.
Pharaoh Atem: each time you'd ask to end a phase, that's an opportunity to say "no, you can't, because I wanna do something during the phase."
Pharaoh Atem: this means that in properly handled gameplay, Mind Crush would've had several chances to be activated before the NS
Cesaritoqw: Ya, I used to play that way, but a lot of rude boys went into "Stop asking" "I will say to you when I want to do something" "Stop stalling"
Pharaoh Atem: but it'd have no chance to let your opp say "I wanted to mind crush the thing you just NS'd
Pharaoh Atem: well, Cesar, ygo doesn't give a damn what those brats think. Rules are rules, and rules demand players clarify and play properly. I'm not here to tolerate the impatience of kids who have a conniption when someone tries to be polite, right?
Cesaritoqw: Roger that
Pharaoh Atem: clarity is politeness, and that's that.
Pharaoh Atem: THAT SAID
Pharaoh Atem: ygo takes a damn long time when you clarify in all cases, so players forego it
Pharaoh Atem: and event staff lets it go as long as it doesn't cause problems
Pharaoh Atem: and the way that they make it "not cause problems" is by recognizing precedents in how players "have rushed through gameplay" during a game
Pharaoh Atem: for example
Pharaoh Atem: if I conduct my normal draw
Pharaoh Atem: and immediately attack after
Pharaoh Atem: w/o checking for a response to the draw
Pharaoh Atem: or to changing phases twice
Pharaoh Atem: that would be a shortcut between "normal draw" and "attack declaration"
Pharaoh Atem: a judge would make a note of that and then check to see if your opponent used the same shortcut in the game
Pharaoh Atem: if he himself "conducted a normal draw and then immediately attacked"
Pharaoh Atem: if you both use the same shortcut, the game deems that shortcut "not wanted, but tolerated"
Pharaoh Atem: the shortcut becomes "established"
Pharaoh Atem: that way.
Pharaoh Atem: now, when a shortcut is established, the points of gameplay covered by that shortcut no longer require players to explicitly confirm if it is okay to proceed
Pharaoh Atem: instead, the points of gameplay covered by an established and mutually used shortcut ALL treat SILENCE as permission to proceed
Pharaoh Atem: if you don't speak up saying "stop" before someone does something you don't want them to do, it's too late, if an established shortcut is in place for this moment
Pharaoh Atem: you NS'd Retiarii in a point in time covered by established shortcuts
Pharaoh Atem: he didn't speak up w/ Mind Crush before the NS
Pharaoh Atem: his chance to do it is gone, and he only has himself to blame.
Pharaoh Atem: Not done
Pharaoh Atem: you see that policy about shortcuts is coldhearted
Pharaoh Atem: but the thing is, this is the fairest way to handle them without banning shortcut use outright
Pharaoh Atem: and a ban on shortcuts will not work out, players will never comply with it either here or IRL
Pharaoh Atem: In a game where shortcuts can be used, the one way to protect yourself from shortcuts harming you is "don't let them treat silence as permission to proceed"
Pharaoh Atem: and shortcuts only treat silence as permission to proceed if the shortcut is established
Pharaoh Atem: and it only gets established as part of the flow of gameplay if BOTH PLAYERS USE THE SAME SHORTCUT.
Pharaoh Atem: Mutual use is the key
Pharaoh Atem: which means "if you don't use any shortcuts at all, your opponent rushing through his own plays with shortcuts will not make you lose the right to act."
Pharaoh Atem: If you use shortcuts, you open up the right for someone to presume silence as permission to play onward
Pharaoh Atem: if you don't, you seal that up and protect yourself.
Pharaoh Atem: Tesla used shortcuts, and so did you
Pharaoh Atem: and they were the same shortcuts
Pharaoh Atem: so Tesla can't watch you NS and then magically decide "I'm not ok with shortcuts anymore, put it back so I can mind crush it"
Pharaoh Atem: Now then, that solves one problem in this call
Pharaoh Atem: the second is intentions
Pharaoh Atem: Does Atem think Tesla did this Mind Crush thing intentionally, with prior knowledge that it wasn't legal?
Pharaoh Atem: No.
Pharaoh Atem: Intent of wrongdoing with prior knowledge of the wrongness of said action is what separates procedural errors from cheating
Pharaoh Atem: and I don't think Tesla knew any better
Pharaoh Atem: so, Tesla gets a warning instead of a cheating ban.
Pharaoh Atem: Tesla, Set that Mind Crush. it was activated illegally.
Pharaoh Atem: (the circumstances under which it was activated were built on pretenses I had to clear up, and for that reason I had to rewind gameplay to the moment of NS to clear things up.)
Pharaoh Atem: (at that time, Crush wasn't yet activated.)
Cesaritoqw: Totally worth the read. Now onwards i'll know how to act in shortcuts games and non-shortcuts games
Pharaoh Atem: (he may still respond to the summon by activating Crush.)
Pharaoh Atem: the judge ethos regarding this issue IRL is simple
Pharaoh Atem: "live by the sword, die by the sword"
Pharaoh Atem: you can protect yourself if you play properly
Cesaritoqw: Yup
Pharaoh Atem: but if you think you're too cool or too impatient for proper play, shortcuts can be used
Pharaoh Atem: but they can, and will, burn you given the chance.