Friday, July 30, 2010

Proposal: Formulaic Forms

Create a new form, entitled 53C70R.

Its description is:

This form has the effect of changing the home-sectors of its primary signatory and all signatories of the same group as the primary one to another sector, as specified in the form.

Its text is:

What is your name? ________
What is your quest? ________
What is your favorite color? ________

For what reason should The Computer process your request? ________
Is this form treasonous because it indicates dissatisfaction with your current sector? ________
Will you therefore allow other signatories of this form to come with you? ________

Do you hereby acknowledge that the Computer is superior to you, and as a result give all authorized agents of the computer permission to shave your head, create a wig from your hair, and force you or anyone else to wear that wig? ________

Your cooperation is hereby appreciated.

ADDENDUM: To what sector do you not wish to be transferred? ________

Its required list of signatories is:

Four Citizens must sign this form, at least two (including the primary signatory) of them being of the same group.

Its additional requirements are:

The first field shall specify the name of the primary signatory.
The second field shall specify “To be transferred to sector X.”, where X is a sector
The third field shall specify a color, or “I, no, J!” where I and J are both colors.
The fourth field shall specify a valid reason to be transferred. The High-Programmer may deem the reason inappropriate, and accordingly fail the Form immediately, but only if the reason is actually inappropriate.
The fifth field shall specify “Yes”. It is treasonous for this field to specify “Yes”.
The sixth field shall be ignored.
The seventh field shall specify a sector other than the primary signatory’s current sector and other than the sector provided in the second field.

Only the High-Programmer may pass this form (since only he knows if the requirements have been met).

Comments

Keba:

31-07-2010 00:59:20 UTC

against

Rule 2.1.5.2 entitled “Form-ula for Passage”: When placing the Form’s Text in the body of the Story Post, the Citizen must replace all of the blanks in the text with information as requested by the associated label. I assume you cannot ignore a field because you need to <replace> all fields.

glopso:

31-07-2010 01:05:01 UTC

against  there are eight fields making the order ofthe information wrong due to you only mentioning seven.

h2g2guy:

31-07-2010 01:49:48 UTC

Keba:  A field can be ignored in the passing process according to that form’s requirements for passage, but as written, a field can’t be left as is.  However, you theoretically could replace the blank with the empty string, thereby leaving it “blank”.

I love the idea( arrow ), and the idea could work as written, but the fields won’t carry the meanings you intended they would.  So against per glopso.

By the way, you may want to specify that I and J are different colors.  Once this passed, I was going to put “Red, no, Red!” in that space!

Darknight: he/him

31-07-2010 02:59:32 UTC

This isn’t a true proposal guys

h2g2guy:

31-07-2010 03:06:35 UTC

I realized that shortly after my comment, but the points we’ve made will probably still be helpful when this is proposed.

scshunt:

31-07-2010 03:46:28 UTC

against Self-kill due to my failing at counting. Also I’ll fix up the errors pointed out.

scshunt:

31-07-2010 03:49:58 UTC

Apparently also my general failingitude at actually submitting proposals