Doubts About The Solution Confirmation Process: K4 X/
I want to raise something potentially troubling regarding the K4 submission and confirmation process. Sanborn's submission rules do not actually promise confirmation if a correct solution is submitted. Here's a cropped image of his rules with relevant text highlighted, and of course you can also go to his website to read the full sheet.
In its least optimistic interpretation, the last highlighted sentence could be read as a promise not to confirm a solution if one comes through. I also think the choice of "a solution" rather than "the solution" is a little strange.
I've had a number of submission interactions with him recently, and on the most recent one I tested out the "constructive dialogue" part and pushed him on the topic of confirmation. I'm sharing the email string here because I was able to get more than the "two back-and-forth emails", and he quickly addressed one question about the solution length (confirming what we already knew). But he ignored three times in a row the issue of confirming the correct solution. There was no response to my last message of May 8. The relevant portions are highlighted below. Disregard anything specifically related to my solution attempt, as that's not the point of this post:
