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Originally Posted by Nate Laverdure
Goes to show: don't ask the question if you're unprepared for a disappointing answer.
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Teams (collectively or individually) have vested interests in particular interpretations or particular ambiguities. The realization that a lack of an answer can sometimes be valuable means that some difficult questions don't get asked, for fear of a capricious or otherwise unfavourable answer.
The inability of disinterested parties (mainly the officials who have to enforce these rules) to get public clarifications is pretty big flaw in the Q&A, and has been since the days it transitioned from an e-mail system to a posting-based system (around 2002).