Except the blurb at the start clearly says there are no exemptions. The only rule is "no vehicles in the park". So all you're judging is 1.) is it a vehicle? and 2.) is it in the park?

Yeah, I actually thought that the phrasing of the blurb weighted the answers in a particular direction, and was surprised to discover that most did not answer questions about emergency vehicles as violating the rule. To quote specifically, it says "...please answer the question of whether the rule is violated (not whether the violation should be allowed)."

In fact, it sort of seems like this sentence should wreck the effort to demonstrate the difficulty of content moderation. I would think that a significant amount of the difficulty comes from instances where moderators feel that interactions between different rules mean they should allow violations of particular rules in certain situations.

To me it looks like the emergency vehicles are counted as violating the rules by about 60% of players? Which I assume is meant in the sense of "yes, this technically breaks the rules, but we assume they had good reason to (because they were following higher-scope rules)".

Yup, without clarification the rule might be there because any vehicle might just be immediately stuck in the terrain. Or hit a landmine. The assumption of course is that it is just a normal park

Here where I live, the latter is actually precisely how the traffic law enforcement works: emergency services get tickets in the post for traffic violations same as everyone else, and it is up to the officials to check their logs and respond with "the vehicle was responding to an incident", which is a valid defence and gets the violation dismissed; or not, as the case may be, if it turns out the crew ran a red light while on their way home or something.

In any case, the question of whether the rule was violated is entirely separate from the question of what, if anything, the consequences of this should be; and it is the former that I understood the game to be asking.

The fact that there is so much debate over the question of what the game was even asking the player to do, with both sides convinced that their interpretation is the obvious correct one, does as much to support the thesis that people have an enormous amount of trouble agreeing on the intent of a simple short piece of text as the rest of the game itself.

>Here where I live…emergency services get tickets in the post for traffic violations same as everyone else, and it is up to the officials to check their logs and respond with “the vehicle was responding to an incident”

I assume you are referring to traffic laws that are enforced by cameras. Is that correct?

Where do you live?