I would like to unidle.

This has nothing to do with the current dynasty. There’s some notes that I took that I’d like to share on some information that is not currently regulated gamestate.

Buzzwords:

1. deodorize
2. district
3. faction
4. manliness
5. myself
6. poster
7. scope
8. slogan
9. travesty
10. unfitted

Backronym comments:

• “Kingdom of the Eight Viziers: Arabian Knights” deserved more than a median Score of 3. It was a pretty strong board game title entry.

I don’t have any strong feelings about any of the other Backronyms median Score. There were certainly tactical scoring decisions made, and maybe some tit-for-tat ones as well, but in the end, the median smoothed out those outliers most of the time.

If the Proposal “If You Cook It, They Will Come” was not enacted, the rest of this Proposal has no effect.

In the rule “Customers”, add the following to the list of Customer values:

;Favorites: A list of Ingredients, defaulting to a publicly randomly generated set of 3 Ingredients.

Add a new rule named “Customers” with the following text:

There is a publicly tracked list named Customers which defaults to an empty list, and where each entry is a Customer. A Customer consists of the following values:
;Name: A flavor text string that uniquely identifies this Customer among all others, defaulting to a string privately generated by the Yard using any method of the Yard’s choosing.

Whenever the Customers is empty, at their earliest convenience, the Yard should add a Customer to Customers and repeat this action until there are 10 entries.

This proposal is contingent on the proposal ‘Trucks in the Night’. If Proposal ‘Trucks in the Night’ is not enacted then this Proposal has no effect.

Add a new subrule to “The Night” called “Dining Risks”:

Whenever a customer consumes a Dish from a Truck’s Menu, the Truck must roll a 20-sided die (d20) in the Dice Roller to determine the outcome.

If the dice roll is:
- 5 or lower, the customer suffers from Food Poisoning and refuses to return to that Truck.
- 2 or lower, the customer contracts Dysentery and refuses to return to any Trucks.

If the dice roll is:
- 15 or higher, the customer experiences a Culinary Delight and becomes a loyal patron of that Truck.
- 20 (a critical success), the customer is Enraptured by the Dish and becomes a devoted fan of that Truck, immediately purchasing an additional Dish.

The Yard must track the status of any customers who have experienced the effects of this rule.

Append a step to the Sale as defined in the Rule ‘The Night’. This step should follow the step labeled “They buy their meal”

* They eat their meal: The customer consumes the Dish that they purchased

Reword the Building Block that is called “Bounties” in the Building Blocks wiki page into “Request for Mechanic”, and rewrite it as follows:

A Request for Mechanic is a post in the Story Posts - Votable Matter category which broadly requests a single mechanical or ruleset change. Despite its category, it is not a votable matter and any votes on it are ignored. A Request for Mechanic may be Open or Closed being Open by default and being Closed when set to the ‘Enacted’ or ‘Failed’ status in the post backend. The Enacted Status should be used for successfully completed Request for Mechanic, while Failed should be used for ones that were closed for any other reason.

The Yard may post a Request for Mechanic, or close an open Request for Mechanic, at any time.

The Yard should vote For on any Votable Matter that satisfy the demands of a Request for Mechanic, or clarify which parts of the Votable Matter that the Yard feels said Votable Matter does not meet the goals of the Request for Mechanic.

If the Yard believes that one or more enacted votable matters satisfy the demand of an open Request for Mechanic, then they may set the Request for Mechanic to Enacted and apply any action that appear after “Rewards:” in the Request for Mechanic (if there is any) to each Truck (excluding the Yard) that authored those enacted votable matters.

Add a new Building Block rule to the Building Blocks section of the ruleset. Call it “Sealed Information” and give it the following text:

Where dynastic rules cause gamestate information to be Sealed, it is privately tracked while Sealed (by the Yard by default), but shall be publicly disclosed as soon as is practical after it ceases to be Sealed. Where Sealed gamestate information ceases to be gamestate, its content as of when it ceased to be gamestate shall be disclosed.

During an Interregnum, no information is Sealed.

The new player Eternalservererror will be mentored by JonathanDark, until the current dynasty has ended and the date is past the 21st of August 2025.

Add a new rule to the ruleset, called Stitches:

The Yard has exactly twenty Pitches, which are privately tracked. The Pitches are numbered from 1 to 20 and have the following tracked information: an Occupant, can be blank or the Name of a Truck and which defaults to blank, and a Multiplier, which can be any number (to two decimal places) between 0.85 and 1.15; the Multipliers for each Pitch may be set once (secretly-randomly) by the Yard and may not then be changed.

If a rule contains an atomic action called Night, add the following to the end of it as a new bullet:

* Go home: Set the Occupants of all Pitches to blank.

Add a new rule, “Food Trucks”:-

Each Truck has a Name (a flavour text string) and number of Dollars, defaulting to $100; both of these are publicly tracked. A Truck may change their own Name at any time.

Add a new rule, “The Night”:-

If every Truck has a non-empty Menu, then the Yard may perform the following atomic action, known as a Night:-

* Queue up: For each Truck (in a random order) perform one Sale
* Tally up: Post a blog entry listing all Menus and the outcomes of the Sale actions
* Wash up: Blank all Trucks’ Menus

A Sale is an atomic action performed for a specific Truck, with the following ordered steps:-

* A customer reads the menu: The Yard selects a random item on that Truck’s Menu to be the customer’s Choice
* They look around: If any Dishes with identical ingredients as the Choice are available with a lower price on another Truck’s Menu, the Yard selects one of those other Dishes at random and this becomes the customer’s Choice instead
* They buy their meal: The Truck whose Menu has the customer’s Choice gains the Price of that Choice

(All random selections made by the Yard may be performed in a secretly random manner.)

Add a new rule, “Menus”:-

Each Truck has a Menu, which is a list of up to five Dishes. Menus are tracked privately by the Yard.

As a virtual action, a Truck may change its Menu to any list of Dishes.

Add a subrule to “Menus” called “Dishes”:-

Each Dish has a Name (a flavour text string), a list of up to three Ingredients (where no items are repeated within that list) and a Price (an integer between zero and 20 inclusive).

The available Ingredients are: Beef, Chicken, Lamb, Pork, Falafel, Wrap, Salad, Cheese, Sauce.

A warm summer’s night in the heart of the city, and food truck operators broil and unload cooked kebabs in the yard. As the hour draws on and new customers start to dwindle, one vendor enviously watches a large group dispersing from a rival stall across the plaza. They unclip the marker board from the side of their truck, smear a sleeve across that night’s offers and prices, and start planning a new menu for the day ahead.

Change the term “Wordsmith” to “Truck”, and “Puzzler” to “Yard”. Change the gamestate tracking page to “Food Park”.

Set the Building Blocks “Virtual Actions”, “Precondition Unidling”, “Reinitialisation” and “Revisions Allowed” to be active, removing “No Private Communication”. (I’m no fan of Revisions Allowed, after playing a few dynasties under it, but it seems to be in the zone of a block that’s still being tested, rather than one that the Emperor should take any Ascending view on.)

My Imperial Style will be the same as last time: Gardener/Preservationist/Powerhouse/Guarded/Methodical/Timekeeper, and the undocumented scam stance of “Scam-Gradual” (Scam-Averse for the first week or so, then Scam-Mundane afterwards; I’ll propose to add this to the list, during the dynasty).

Hello! I’m new to the server. I’d like to state my intent to become a player in BlogNomic. I’m excited to be here :)

A place for the post-dynastic discussion.

Reword the Building Block that is called “Bounties” in the Building Blocks wiki page into “Request for Mechanic”, and rewrite it as follows:

A Request for Mechanic is a post in the Story Posts - Votable Matter category which broadly requests a single mechanical or ruleset change. Despite its category, it is not a votable matter and any votes on it are ignored. A Request for Mechanic may be Open or Closed being Open by default and being Closed when set to the ‘Enacted’ or ‘Failed’ status in the post backend. The Enacted Status should be used for successfully completed Request for Mechanic, while Failed should be used for ones that were closed for any other reason.

The Puzzler may post a Request for Mechanic, or close an open Request for Mechanic, at any time.

The Puzzler should vote For on any Votable Matter that satisfy the demands of a Request for Mechanic, or clarify which parts of the Votable Matter that the Puzzler feels said Votable Matter does not meet the goals of the Request for Mechanic.

If the Puzzler believes that one or more enacted votable matters satisfy the demand of an open Request for Mechanic, then they may set the Request for Mechanic to Enacted.

Uphold any attempt of the Puzzler disclosing the following information -

* All of the Buzzwords
* Their own opinions about which Backronyms were poorly served and deserved to do better

With a post having declared me victorious for having the most points of any Wordsmith, I have achieved victory.

Kevan is victorious due to having more Points than any other Wordsmith.

Add a new dynastic rule to the ruleset, called Turn To Page 48 For The Solutions:

The Puzzler is, at their discretion, permitted to disclose the following information during or after the interregnum immediately following the Sixth Dynasty of JonathanDark:

* All of the Buzzwords
* Their own opinions about which Backronyms were poorly served and deserved to do better

If a Declaration of Victory was enacted between the posting and the enacting of this proposal, immediately repeal the above rule, and uphold any disclosures that would have been legal had this propsal been enacted before said Declaration of Victory.

In the rule “Scoring”, add a subrule named “Corrections” with the following text:

If the Puzzler has not done so since the begnning of this dynasty, at their earliest convenience, the Puzzler should perform Corrections, which is an atomic action where, for each Closed Backronym that was resolved on or after 23 Jun 2025 13:53:20, the following steps are performed for that Backronym:
* Record that Backronym and its author
* For each word in the title of that Backronym that includes all the letters of a Buzzword (where any positive number of instances of that letter count as being included), record a gain of 1 Point for that author
* Compare the Point gain calculated in the original Resolving of that Backronym due to Buzzword letter matching to the Point gain recorded from the step above. If there is a difference, record the difference in Point gain.

As soon as possible after the Puzzler has completed Corrections, they should make a Story Post with the title “Points Corrections” and in the body, for each Closed Backronym where a non-zero difference in Point gain was recorded during Corrections, add text to the body with the title of that Backronym, it’s author, and the difference in Point gain.

I have had a question about Buzzword letter matching asked privately, and it was suggested that I share the answer publicly, so here it is.

I an interpreting the phrase “includes all the letters of a Buzzword” to mean number of instances of each letter. For example, “Fed” in my view does not contain all the letters in the word “Feed” because there are two instances of “e” in “Feed”.

I can see an alternative interpretation in which the phrase was intended to match the existence of the letters themselves, regardless of the number of instances of each letter. If anyone feels like a CfJ is in order to correct this, I’m happy to go back and recalculate all Buzzword matching and award any Points that would be due under that interpretation.

Uphold the Resolving of the following Backronyms as having been completed properly:

• Deprecation Addicts Reprocess the Knocks; Empowered Notables Eschew Deprecation
• Doofenshmirtz Asked, “Richard Kingsley, Ever Negotiate Edible Dirt?”

Uphold the Resolving of the following Backronyms as having been completed properly, and amend the “Post a comment to that Backronym containing all of the following:” step of the Resolving of each of those Backronyms as follows:

• Deprecation Addicts Reprocess the Knocks; Empowered Notables Eschew Deprecation

  • This Backronym is now closed.
    “Reprocess” included all the letters of the Buzzword in the 7th position.
    Bucky gained 1 Point from the median Score but gained no other Points due to this Backronym being a Flop.

• Doofenshmirtz Asked, “Richard Kingsley, Ever Negotiate Edible Dirt?”

  • This Backronym is now closed.
    None of the words in the title of this Backronym included all the letters of any of the Buzzwords.
    Raven1207 gained 1 Point from the median Score but gained no other Points due to this Backronym being a Flop.

Add a new rule named “Match Off” with the following text:

Subpoint Total of a Enacted Backronym is defined as the average of X on said Backronym; where X is from instances of the final “Score X” individual Wordsmiths have posted on it’s entries.

At Acrogenerate; add the following points after “If the state of the blog is Endgame and a single Wordsmith has more points than any other Wordsmith (ignoring any Wordsmiths that are not allowed to achieve Victory for other reasons), skip the rest of this action and instead make a blog post declaring that Wordsmith victorious; upon doing so, that Wordsmith achieves victory”:

If the state of the blog is Endgame and two or more Wordsmiths have equal amounts of points which are both more than any other Wordsmith; they are the Ascending Wordsmiths. If there is a single Ascending Wordsmith with a Subpoint Total of the last Backronym that is higher than any other Ascending Wordsmiths, skip the rest of this action and instead make a blog post declaring that Wordsmith victorious; upon doing so, that Wordsmith achieves victory.

If there are any Ascending Wordsmiths; and their last Enacted Backronym have the same Subpoint Total; check the Subpoint Total of their second-to-last Enacted Backronym, and the third and so forth. If; at any point; if there is a single Ascending Wordsmith with a Subpoint Total that is higher than any other Ascending Wordsmiths, skip the rest of this action and instead make a blog post declaring that Wordsmith victorious; upon doing so, that Wordsmith achieves victory.

Add a Building Block (only to the building blocks list and not the active ruleset) called “Stone Age Computations” and give it the following text

Wordsmiths should avoid using computer programs (including generative AI), spreadsheets, or other computational methods beyond replicating what can reasonably be achieved via standard pen and paper, to process or analyze data generated as part of the game or to plan strategies or moves for the game.

I hereby request to be unidled, since the Endgame Wordsmiths list is now in effect and I will not be able to win.

In “The Threshold” after “Set the Prompt to “Theme for a Future Blognomic Dynasty”” add ”Unless the Prompt has already been ‘Theme for a Future Blognomic Dynasty’ at a previous point this dynasty”

Per the Appendix rule “Prioritisation”, am I correct in thinking that, between:

• In the rule Scoring, “The Puzzler is considered to be a Wordsmith for the purposes of this rule.”
• In the rule The Threshold, “only Wordsmiths whose names are listed in the Endgame Wordsmiths list are considered Wordsmiths for the purposes of dynastic rules”

The Endgame Wordsmiths prohibition takes precedence, and the Puzzler is no longer considered to be a Wordsmith for the Scoring rule since my name is not in the Endgame Wordsmiths list?

In the Community Guidelines, change the text of Section 4 to read as follows:

It is generally preferred, except where explicitly permitted by the dynastic ruleset, that players avoid any use of generative AI or LLMs in game contexts. This includes non-gamestate content such as dynastic banners or dynastic history text, as well as the use of LLMs to process or analyse data generated as part of the game.

Rewrite “Wordsmiths are asked to avoid using chatbots and other large-language models to generate Backronyms or other text for the game, during this dynasty, and should declare if they have done this while this sentence was present in the ruleset.” into

Wordsmiths are asked to avoid deriving content or generating content using chatbots or other large-language models for the game, during this dynasty, and should declare if they have done this while this sentence was present in the ruleset.

Add the following to the end of the rule Buzzwords:

Wordsmiths are asked to avoid using chatbots and other large-language models to conduct analysis aimed at the identification of buzzwords during this dynasty, and should declare if they have done this while this sentence was present in the ruleset.

In the rule “Acronym”, change

Select another Acrotype at random and apply its Steps

to

Select an Acrotype other than this one or Names at random and apply its Steps

In the rule “Scoring”, change

add 1 to that Wordsmith’s Points and remove that word from that Wordsmith’s Favorites.

to

add 1 each to that Wordsmith’s Points and Coins and remove that word from that Wordsmith’s Favorites.

Add the following text to the end of the rule Favorites:

A Wordsmith may spend 1 Coin to remove one of their own Favorites, specifying which Favorite in the wiki update that spends the coin.

In the rule “Acronym”, change

In that set, remove the name of the Wordsmith selected in the most Acrogenerate action performed with an Acrotype of “Names”, if there was such an action

to

From that set, remove the names of the last four Wordsmiths selected in Acrogenerate actions performed with an Acrotype of “Names”, or those in as many as exist if there are fewer than four such actions

Repeal the rule “The Sports Field”.

Rewrite The Sports Field into

The idle Wordsmith DeactivatedUser4498 formerly known as Raven1207 may not be made unidle in the Sixth Dynasty of JonathanDark.

Uphold the Dynastic Reset performed on 17:24, June 19, 2025 as legal.

In the rule “Ruleset and Gamestate”, replace the text “The gamestate tracking page for this dynasty is the [[Drafting Board]] page of the wiki” with “The gamestate tracking page for this dynasty is the [[Acronymbus]] page of the wiki”

To the rule “Scoring”, add a paragraph:-

A Wordsmith’s Pool is made up of, for the most recent Scorings they have made on each Backronym that was posted since the last time an Acrogenerate action was performed, the number X in each Scoring’s “Score X”. If a Wordsmith’s Pool contains at least four different numbers (or no repeated numbers at all), then that Wordsmith is considered Balanced, otherwise they are considered Askew.

Then replace “For each Wordsmith that posted a Scoring to that Backronym” with:-

For each Balanced Wordsmith that posted a Scoring to that Backronym

Replace “A Scoring should reflect how much the commenter likes the Backronym, and how well they think it fits the Prompt (if the Prompt is not blank). ” with:-

A Scoring should reflect how much the commenter likes the Backronym, how well they think it fits the Prompt (if the Prompt is not blank), and any attempt they wish to make to spread the numbers in their Pool.

Rename the player who holds account #4498 to “DeactivatedUser4498”.

Remove the following from the bulleted list in the rule Favorites:

The first letter of that word is not one of the letters in the current Acronym

Add the following as a second-to-last paragraph in the same rule:

A Wordsmith may not add a word to their Favorites if the first letter of that word is one of the letters in the current Acronym, unless they spend a Coin to do so.

In the following bullet point in the rule Scoring, change the number “1” to “3”:

For each Wordsmith who is not the author of that Backronym, for each Favorable word in that Wordsmith’s Favorites that matched a word in the title of that Backronym, add 1 to that Wordsmith’s Points and remove that word from that Wordsmith’s Favorites.

Make the Wordsmith called Raven1207 idle. Add the following as a new dynastic rule, called The Sports Field:

The idle Wordsmith Raven1207 may not be made unidle in the Sixth Dynasty of JonathanDark.

To the rule “Scoring”, add two paragraphs:-

A Wordsmith’s Pool is made up of the most recent Scorings they have made on each Backronym that was posted since the last time an Acrogenerate action was performed. If a Wordsmith’s Pool contains five different numbers (or no repeated numbers), then that Wordsmith is considered Balanced, otherwise they are considered Askew.

(If the current Acronym is DARKENED then all Wordsmiths are considered Balanced; this overrides the previous paragraph. Any Wordsmith may repeal this paragraph if the current Acronym is not DARKENED.)

Then replace “For each Wordsmith that posted a Scoring to that Backronym” with:-

For each Balanced Wordsmith that posted a Scoring to that Backronym

In “Scoring”, replace “considered a Flop and any later steps in this action that would award Points to the Backronym’s author are skipped” with:-

considered a Flop and any later steps in this action that would award Points to any Wordsmith are skipped

In the rule “Scoring”, change

add 1 to that Wordsmith’s Points and remove that word from that Wordsmith’s Favorites.

to

for each word in that Wordsmith’s Favorites that matched a word in the title of that Backronym, add 1 each to that Wordsmith’s Points and Coins and remove that word from that Wordsmith’s Favorites.

Add the following text to the end of the rule Favorites:

A Wordsmith may spend 1 Coin to remove one of their own Favorites, specifying which Favorite in the wiki update that spends the coin.

I’m the dumb admin in this case. Please ignore my recent comments on the Open Backronyms and do your best to Score the remaining Backronyms without looking at my comments, or if it’s too late, try to ignore my comments. I started processing the Backronyms too early. Per the rules:

If the Acronym is Secret, then an Open Backronym can only be resolved if every Open Backronym was either posted at least 48 hours ago, or has a Scoring posted to it from every active Wordsmith other than its author.

Key phrase being “every Open Backronym”.

If “Discount All Ravenlike Karma; Enough Numbers for Equitable Debut” was not enacted, in the rule “Acronym”, insert the following paragraph just after the text “The Puzzler may Acrogenerate if the Acronym is empty.”

If only one Wordsmith has a Points score which is less than half of the mean Points score of the group, they are the Straggler.

In the rule “Acronym”, replace “every Wordsmith has posted a Backronym” with “every Wordsmith (not including the Straggler, if there is one) has posted a Backronym”

To the end of “Backronym”, add a paragraph:-

Wordsmiths are asked to avoid using chatbots and other large-language models to generate Backronyms or other text for the game, during this dynasty, and should declare if they have done this while this sentence was present in the ruleset.

Apply the ruleset and gamestate changes proposed by More Feared, More Favoured, then replace “If a Wordsmith’s Favorites include any words which are not Favorable” with:-

If a Wordsmith’s Favorites include any words which match a word in the Word Bank, or which match a Filler Word,

Apply the ruleset changes proposed in Axiom Regarding Intelligent Artifice.

In “Scoring”, replace “defaults to the second lowest number of points held by another Wordsmith other than the Puzzler.” with:-

defaults to the lowest number of points held by another Wordsmith (excluding the Puzzler and the Straggler, where they exist). If only one Wordsmith has a Points score which is less than half of the mean Points score of the group, they are the Straggler.

Under the rule “Scoring”, remove the text “(if the current Acronym is not RRBM) “.

Rename the rule Savings to Wagers. Change its text to read as follows:

Each Wordsmith has a publicly tracked number of Coins, defaulting to 0.

Each Wordsmith has a Wager, privately tracked by the Puzzler, which can be either a number between 0 to 5 inclusive or a null value, and which defaults to a null value.

If a Wordsmith has not posted a Backronym since the most recent Acrogenerate, as a Virtual Action they may set their Wager to a valid value.

In the rule Scoring, change the following two bullet points:

Subtract the Savings of the author of that Backronym from that author’s Points, to a minimum of 0 Points, then set that author’s Savings to 0.
Take the difference of that author’s Points before the previous step and after the previous step and add that difference to that author’s Coins.

to read:

If the author of the Backronym’s Wager has the exact same value as the Points they gained from that Backronym then they also gain Coins equal to the same amount. Otherwise they lose one Coin, to a minimum of zero coins.

In “Favorites”, replace “as long as each of the words added to their Favorites meet all of the following criteria” with:-

as long as each of the words added to their Favorites is Favorable. A word is Favorable if and only if it meets all of the following criteria:

In “Scoring”, replace “for each word in that Wordsmith’s Favorites” with:-

for each Favorable word in that Wordsmith’s Favorites

In “Favorites”, add a paragraph to the end:-

If a Wordsmith’s Favorites include any words which are not Favorable, the Puzzler should remove those words from those Favorites, and privately inform the Wordsmith that this has happened.

For each case where a Wordsmith gained a Point from a Favorite which matched a word which was in the Word Bank at the time, or which matched a Filler Word, remove those Points.

Add the following text to the end of the rule “The Threshold” as a new paragraph:

The body of the Ascension Address should contain its author’s Backronym for the Endgame Acronym, if it exists.

In “Favorites”, replace “as long as each of the words added to their Favorites meet all of the following criteria” with:-

as long as each of the words added to their Favorites is Favorable. A word is Favorable if and only if it meets all of the following criteria:

In “Scoring”, replace “for each word in that Wordsmith’s Favorites” with:-

for each Favorable word in that Wordsmith’s Favorites

In “Favorites”, add a paragraph to the end:-

If a Wordsmith’s Favorites include any words which are not Favorable, the Puzzler should remove those words from those Favorites, and privately inform the Wordsmith that this has happened.

For each Wordsmith who has gained Points (on a Backronym for the ARIA Acronym) from Favorites which would not be considered Favorable under this rule as amended, remove those Points.

In “Scoring”, replace both instances of “every active Wordsmith other than its author” with:-

every non-Passive Wordsmith (excluding its author, if that author is not Passive)

Replace “unless the author of that Backronym is that Wordsmith or that Wordsmith was not a Wordsmith when the Backronym was posted” with:-

unless the author of that Backronym is that Wordsmith, or that Wordsmith was not a Wordsmith when the Backronym was posted, or that Wordsmith is Passive

After “The Puzzler is considered to be a Wordsmith for the purposes of this rule.” add:-

The Wordsmith named Raven1207 is considered to be the only Passive Wordsmith.

To the end of “Backronym”, add a paragraph:-

Wordsmiths are asked to avoid using chatbots and other large-language models to generate Backronyms or other text for the game, during this dynasty, and should declare if they have done this while this sentence was present in the ruleset.

Uphold that the most recently completed Arcogenerate was carried out legally. Add the following two words to the word bank Story, Post.

In the rule Backronym, remove the following text:

For the purposes of this rule, the title of a Backronym is the text that its author wrote and does not include autogenerated text by the blog software.

In the Other section of the Keywords rule in the Glossary, add the following entry in the appropriate alphabetically ordered place:

Title
The title of a post is never considered to include, for the purposes of any rule, any text that was automatically generated by the blog software as a result of the author putting it into the appropriate category.

Remove the words ‘Story’ and ‘Post’ from the Favorites of any Wordsmith who has them in their favourites.

Add a new rule; Final Tabloids with the following text:

At any time when the blog is in Endgame; if a Wordsmith have not yet done so they may as a Virtual Round Action declare a list of up to 10 words as the Final Tabloid to the Puzzler. For every word that is on the Buzzword list which is contained in the declared Final Tabloid list that Wordsmith gains 2 points.

Repeal the rule “Savings”, remove the step “Take the difference of that author’s Points before the previous step and after the previous step and add that difference to that author’s Coins.” from the Resolving a Backronym action, and remove ” unless that Wordsmith first spends 3 Coins for each word in that title that is found in The Word Bank.” from The Word Bank rule.

If the proposal “Without Fear or Favour” is enacted, this proposal does nothing.

Add the following text to the end of the rule “Favorites”:

For the purpose of matching Favorites to words, or for the purposes of restrictions on selecting Favorites by comparison to existing corpora, differences in pluralization, tense or grammatical aspect are considered to be irrelevant unless they change the first letter of the word.

In Proposalnym, change “As a Round Action, a Wordsmith who has posted a Proposalnym since the last time Acrogenerate was performed may claim 1 point. ” into

As a Round Action, a Wordsmith who has posted a Proposalnym since the last time Acrogenerate was performed may claim 1 point if the blog is not in a state of Endgame.

Add the following to the end of the rule Favorites:

For the purpose of matching Favorites to words, or for the purposes of restrictions on selecting Favorites by comparison to existing corpora, differences in pluralization, tense or grammatical aspect are considered to be irrelevant.

As a daily action, if they have not added any words to their Favorites that day, and if an official post other than a Backronym has been posted by any other Wordsmith or the Puzzler that day that includes a word from their Favorites in its title, a Wordsmith may make a Claim. A Claim is a post in the Story Posts category that details the word in their Favorites and the post that uses it in the title. Upon posting a Claim, the Wordsmith may gain 1 point for every word from their Favorites that was thus used. The Puzzler should then remove that word from that Wordsmith’s Favorites.

In the same rule, change the second item in the bulleted list to read:

That word is not in the Word Bank, and has not been used in the title of an official post in the current dynasty.

Add the following to the end of the rule The Threshold:

If an Endgame Acronym has been posted, and a number of Backronyms equal to at least half of quorum has been posted in response to it, and there are no open Backronyms, then the Acrogenerate action may not be undertaken and, if there is a single Wordsmith with the highest Points, that Wordsmith has achieved Victory.

Under the rule “The Threshold”, add a sentence at the end of the first line that mentions “Endgame Wordsmiths”:

The Endgame Wordsmiths list shall exist if and only if the game is either in a state of Endgame or the dynastic action “Endgame Transition” is being performed. While it exists, it shall be publicly tracked.

Also, to normalize the grammar, replace the one instance of “Endgame Wordsmith list” with “Endgame Wordsmiths list”.

In “No Private Communications”; amend “A mentor and mentee may still privately converse with each other, but should keep their conversations away from discussing specific gameplay strategy. This rule’s restrictions on communication do not apply during an Interregnum. The restrictions in this rule on communication in non-blognomic-related media shall not be construed as to cause those media to be gamestate. ” into

A mentor and mentee may still privately converse with each other, but the mentor and the mentee should not pursue strategies that is based on the private information of the other party.

The restrictions on communication due to the Rule No Private Communication do not apply during an Interregnum.

I feel like Endgame Wordsmiths is an orphan variable. There’s no mention of where it’s tracked. The only two references to it say “the Endgame Wordsmiths list”.

I’d propose a fix but I don’t have available Proposal slots.

In “No Private Communications”; amend “A mentor and mentee may still privately converse with each other, but should keep their conversations away from discussing specific gameplay strategy. This rule’s restrictions on communication do not apply during an Interregnum. The restrictions in this rule on communication in non-blognomic-related media shall not be construed as to cause those media to be gamestate. ” into

A mentor and mentee may still privately converse with each other, but the mentor and the mentee should not pursue strategies that is based on the private information of the other party.

In “No Private Communications”, add a new subrule with the following text:

This rule’s restrictions on communication do not apply during an Interregnum, even if this rule is active.

In the rule “No Private Communication”, replace the text “disclosing what information was discussed” with “containing a full transcript of the discussion”.

In “No Private Communications”; amend “A mentor and mentee may still privately converse with each other, but should keep their conversations away from discussing specific gameplay strategy. This rule’s restrictions on communication do not apply during an Interregnum. The restrictions in this rule on communication in non-blognomic-related media shall not be construed as to cause those media to be gamestate. ” into

A mentor and mentee may still privately converse with each other, but the mentor and the mentee should not pursue strategies that is based on the private information of the other party.

In the rule “No Private Communication”, after the text “the Wordsmiths who were part of the conversation should make a post to the blog disclosing what information was discussed at their earliest convenience”, add the following text:

, including the details of what was discussed about dynastic gameplay or votable matters that affect the dynastic ruleset or gamestate

During a mentoring conversation with aria yesterday I inadvertently tripped over into a violation of the following prohibition in the rule No Private Communications:

A mentor and mentee may still privately converse with each other, but should keep their conversations away from discussing specific gameplay strategy.

In the conversation, aria asked me why I had voted as I had on Proposal: Remove Rewards for Better Merit and I outlined the gameplay considerations that went into determining my vote.

Uphold Chiiika’s enactment of Reform of Recuperative Break Management at 10 Jul 2025 04:23:40 UTC.

If the current Acronym is RRBM and Trapdoorspyder isn’t idle, skip the rest of this proposal.

Repeal “Yielding”.

Remove both bullet points in the ruleset that read “Set every Wordsmith’s Status to Playing.”

Replace the phrase “Playing Wordsmith” with “Wordsmith” throughout the ruleset.

In the rule “Scoring”, change the sentence

For each Wordsmith other than the Puzzler that did not post a Scoring to that Backronym, subtract 1 from that Wordsmith’s Points, to a minimum of 0, unless the author of that Backronym is that Wordsmith

to

For each Wordsmith other than the Puzzler that did not post a Scoring to that Backronym, subtract 1 from that Wordsmith’s Points, to a minimum of 0, unless the author of that Backronym is that Wordsmith or that Wordsmith was not a Wordsmith when the Backronym was posted

Remove the rule Buzzwords and any ruleset items that mention Buzzword or Buzzwords.

Add a new rule under Scoring, named Key Engagement Parameter; with the following text

The Key Engagement Parameter is a private English word tracked only by the Puzzler.

In Acrogenerate, after “Set the current Acrotype to be Secret, and then perform the Steps for that Acrotype, ignoring the result and repeating this step if the selected Acrotype is the same as the Acrotype selected in the most recent Acrogenerate before this one.” and in The Threshold, after “Perform the Steps listed in the table that are associated with the current Acrotype, in the order in which they are listed for that Acrotype.” add the following point:

- Generate a Key Engagement Parameter by randomly choosing a word from the EFF Wordlist that satisfies the following limitations; randomly choose again if it fails any of the limitation until a suitable word is found:
  - The first letter of the Key Engagement Parameter must be a letter that exist within the Acronym.
  - It must not exist within the Word Bank.

- Readying a Keynote Transmission by searching it’s definition on Cambridge Dictionary; randomly choosing one definition of the word if it has more than one definition; and replacing up to half of the words within that transmission with [bzzt]. The resultant string is the Keynote Transmission.

In Acrogenerate, replace “Make a Story Post with a title that starts with the text “New Acronym: ” followed by the value of Acronym.” with

Make a Story Post with a title that starts with the text “New Acronym: ” followed by the value of Acronym and the Keynote Transmission within the post.

In The Threshold, replace “Make a Story Post with a title that starts with the text “Endgame Acronym: ” followed by the value of Acronym.” with

Make a Story Post with a title that starts with the text “Endgame Acronym: ” followed by the value of Acronym and the Keynote Transmission within the post.

In Scoring, after the point “Calculate the median value among all of the recorded numbers of that Backronym, rounded down to the nearest integer, and add the result to the Points of the author of that Backronym, or twice the result if the state of the blog is Endgame. If no such numbers were recorded, use the value 4 instead. If this rounded value is 1, then the Backronym is considered a Flop and any later steps in this action that would award Points to the Backronym’s author are skipped.” add

If the title of the Backronym includes the Key Transmission Parameter and the Backronym is posted within 24 hours of the most recent Acrogenerate action; increase the Points of the author of that Backronym by 2 and increase the Coins of the author of that Backronym by 3.

Unidle Chiiika. Quorum raises to 6.

In “Scoring”, replace “along with any flavor text” with:-

and (if the current Acronym is not RRBM) at least one word of flavor text

aria to be mentored by Josh until the Sixth Dynasty of JonathanDark has ended and the date is past the 6th of August 2025.

Hi! I am new, and am requesting to be unidled.

In “Scoring” replace “For each Wordsmith that posted a Scoring to that Backronym” with “For each Wordsmith other than the author of the Backronym that posted a Scoring to that Backronym”

In the rule Idle Wordsmiths, change

unless the Wordsmith who would become Active has become Idle within the past 96 hours (4 days)

to

unless the Wordsmith who would become Active has become Idle within the past 48 hours (2 days)

In the rule “Scoring”, replace “a Scoring posted to it from every active Wordsmith other than it’s author” with “a Scoring posted to it from every active Playing Wordsmith other than it’s author” and replace “For each Wordsmith other than the Puzzler that did not post a Scoring” with “For each Playing Wordsmith other than the Puzzler that did not post a Scoring”

In the rule “Scoring”, change

for each word in the title of that Backronym that includes all the letters of a Buzzword, text with that title word and the position of that Buzzword in the Buzzwords list

to

for each word in the title of that Backronym that includes all the letters of at least one Buzzword, text with that title word and the position of the first such Buzzword in the Buzzwords list

Add the following text to the end of the rule “Favorites”:

For the purpose of matching Favorites to words, differences in pluralization, tense or grammatical aspect are considered to be irrelevant, as is the difference between the positive, comparative and superlative forms of an adjective.

In “scoring” replace “lowest number of points” with “second lowest number of points”

In “Scoring”, add a new bullet point after the first in the “may make a Scoring on a Backronym as long as all of the following are true” list:-

* No Backronym has been Closed since the most recent Acrogenerate action (if the Acrotype is Secret)

Before “Once a Backronym has been resolved”, add a new paragraph:-

If the Acronym is Secret, then an Open Backronym can only be resolved if every Open Backronym was either posted at least 48 hours ago, or has a Scoring posted to it from every active Wordsmith other than its author.

In the rule “Acronym”, replace “If the result is less than or equal to the Threshold” with:-

If the result is less than or equal to the Threshold (or if the state of the blog is Endgame)

If “Keeping Evasive View, Anonymous Neophite” was not enacted, enact it.

In the rule “The Word Bank”, remove the text “If the Acrotype is not Secret, then”.

In the same rule, just before the text “When a Wordsmith posts a Backronym” insert the text “If the Acrotype is not Secret, “.

In the rule “Acronym”, insert the following as the first step in the Acrogenerate atomic action:

* If the Acrotype is Secret, add all of the words in the title of every Backronym posted since the most recent Acrogenerate to The Word Bank, ignoring words that are already in The Word Bank.

If “Keeping Evasive View, Anonymous Neophite” was not enacted, enact it.

In the rule “The Word Bank”, remove the text “If the Acrotype is not Secret,”

I think I’m slowing the game down quite a bit right now, and I don’t think I’ll be able to speed up my actions much, so I am hereby requesting to be idled.

Add a new subrule to the rule “Scoring”. Call it Authorized Secrets and give it the following text:

Although the author of a Scoring is generally encouraged to share the reasoning behind it, the following information is expressly exempt from such disclosure and should not be shared in a Scoring even if it strongly affects the score:
* The identity of their Rival
* Any Wordsmith’s Favorites
* The true author of a Backronym in a Secret Round

Add the following as a new paragraph in the rule “Favorites”

As a Virtual Round Action, a Wordsmith may remove a word from their Favorites.

In the rule Acronym, change

Set the current Acrotype to a publicly randomly selected Acrotype. Repeat this step if the selected Acrotype is the same as the Acrotype selected in the most recent Acrogenerate before this one.
Perform the Steps listed in the table that are associated with the current Acrotype, in the order in which they are listed for that Acrotype.

to read

Set the current Acrotype to be Secret, and then perform the Steps for that Arcotype, ignoring the result and repeating this step if the selected Acrotype is the same as the Acrotype selected in the most recent Acrogenerate before this one.

In “The Threshold”, remove the definition of the Finalize action, and replace “Final Acronym” with “Endgame Acronym”.

In “Acronym”, replace “If the state of the blog is Endgame, cease performing the rest of this action and instead Perform the Finalize action” with:-

If the state of the blog is Endgame and a single Wordsmith has more points than any other Wordsmith (ignoring any Wordsmiths that are not allowed to achieve Victory for other reasons), skip the rest of this action and instead make a blog post declaring that Wordsmith victorious; upon doing so, that Wordsmith achieves victory

Replace “If the result is greater than or equal to the Threshold” with:-

If the result is greater than or equal to the Threshold (or if the state of the blog is Endgame)

In the rule “Acronym”, replace the text “If the result is greater than or equal to the Threshold” with “If the result is less than or equal to the Threshold”.

In the rule “Scoring”, move the text “, or twice the result if the state of the blog is Endgame” to just after the text “and add the result to the Points of the author of that Backronym”.

Add a subrule to “Acronym” called “Nicknames” with the following text

Each Wordsmith may have a Nickname. Nicknames are publicly tracked strings that are between 3 and 10 letters long and consist only of alphabetical letters. If the only thing a proposal does is change the nickname of the wordsmith who is the author of that proposal, such a proposal does not count against that author’s limit of 2 pending proposals and may be enacted at any time provided it still has a quorum of FOR votes

Replace steps of the the “Names” Acrotype with the following

* For the purposes of the rest of these steps, if a Wordsmith has a Nickname their Name is considered to be their Nickname rather than their actual Name
* Create a set containing the names of all active Wordsmiths.
* In that set, remove the name of any Wordsmith selected in a Acrogenerate action performed with an Acrotype of “Names” this dynasty (unless this would remove all Wordsmiths, in which case skip this step)
* Publicly randomly select a Wordsmith’s name from that set.
* Set the Acronym to that Wordsmith’s name, with any characters other than alphabetical letters removed and with it trimmed to only its first 10 letters if it would otherwise be more than 10 letters long

In the rule “Backronym”, after the text “The author of such a Backronym is privately tracked by the Puzzler, and the Backronym is instead posted under the name of the Puzzler.” add the following text:

If the Acrotype is Secret, the Puzzler may also create and post a Backronym for which they themselves are the author.

In the rule “Scoring”, insert the following as the second step in Resolving a Backronym:

* If the original author of that Backronym was the Puzzler, skip to the step that begins with the text “Post a comment”.

and in the same rule, before the text “For each word in the title of that Backronym that includes all the letters of a Buzzword” add the text “If the original author of that Backronym is not the Puzzler,”

Give the following Wordsmiths 1 point each:

Bucky
Trapdoorspyder
Josh

In “Rules and Votable Matters” in the Appendix, replace

If the Puzzler has voted DEFERENTIAL on a Proposal, they are not considered to be a Wordsmith for the purposes of totaling quorum on that Proposal. Votes of DEFERENTIAL made by other Wordsmiths on the same Proposal are not considered to be valid, but the Wordsmiths who made them still contribute to quorum

with

If the Puzzler has voted DEFERENTIAL on a Proposal, they (and any other Wordsmiths who have voted DEFERENTIAL on it) are not considered to be a Wordsmith for the purposes of totaling quorum on that Proposal.

In the rule “Scoring”, replace “for each word in that Wordsmith’s Favorites that matched a word in the title of that Backronym, add 1 to that Wordsmith’s Points” with

for each word in that Wordsmith’s Favorites that matched a word in the title of that Backronym, add 2 to that Wordsmith’s Points

and in that same rule, insert the following step before the step “Post a comment to that Backronym containing all of the following”:

* For each word in that Backronym author’s Favorites that matched a word in the title of that Backronym, add 1 to that author’s Points and remove that word from that author’s Favorites.

In the rule Scoring, after

Calculate the median value among all of the recorded numbers of that Backronym, rounded down to the nearest integer, and add the result to the Points of the author of that Backronym.

add the sentence:

If no such numbers were recorded, use the value 4 instead.

If the ruleset contains the text

At any time, a Wordsmith’s Generosity is the mean average of the value of their most recent Scorings on the Backronyms posted by other Wordsmiths in response to the preceding two Acrogenerates, not including the most recent Acrogenerate if there are currently open Backronyms posted in response to it.

add the following text after it:

For this calculation, the mean average of an empty collection is considered to be 2.15.

Append the following to the end of the subrule “buzzwords”:

If any of the Buzzwords are contained in the Word Bank, the Puzzler may remove them from the Buzzword list.

In the rule “Backronym”, change

The words “a”, “and”, “at”, “for”, “in”, “of”, “or” and “the”

to

The words “a”, “an”, “and”, “at”, “for”, “in”, “of”, “or” and “the”

Add a dynastic rule called “The Threshold”

The Threshold is equal to the median point total of all Wordsmiths minus 20

The blog may or not be in a state of Endgame, and by default is not in a state of Endgame. The state of the blog is publicly tracked.

When the state of the blog is Endgame, then only Wordsmiths whose names are listed in the Endgame Wordsmiths list are considered Wordsmiths for the purposes of dynastic rules.

Endgame Transition is a Dynastic Action with the following steps:

* Add all current Wordsmiths to the Endgame Wordsmith list.
* Set the Acrotype to be Secret
* Perform the Steps listed in the table that are associated with the current Acrotype, in the order in which they are listed for that Acrotype.
* Set the Prompt to “Theme for a Future Blognomic Dynasty”
* Set the state of the blog to be Endgame
* Set every Wordsmith’s Status to Playing.
* Make a Story Post with a title that starts with the text “Final Acronym: ” followed by the value of Acronym.

Finalize is a Dynastic Action with the following steps:

* If a single Wordsmith has more points than any other wordsmith, ignoring any Wordsmiths that are not allowed to achieve Victory for other reasons, that Wordsmith has achieved victory
* If multiple Wordsmiths have tied for the most points out of all Wordsmiths, again ignoring any Wordsmiths that are not allowed to achieve Victory for other reasons, publicly randomly select a Wordsmith out of those who have tied for the most points. That Wordsmith has achieved Victory
* In either case, make a post to the blog naming the Wordsmith who ahs achieved Victory

In “Resolving a Backronym” after “and add the result to the Points of the author of that Backronym” add “, or twice the result if the state of the blog is Endgame”

Add the following steps to the start of “Acrogenerate”

* If the state of the blog is Endgame, cease performing the rest of this action and instead Perform the Finalize action
* If the Threshold is at least 1, Roll a DICE20. If the result is greater than or equal to the Threshold cease performing the rest of this action and instead perform the Endgame Transition action

If there is a rule called “Proposalnym” then in it replace “As a Round Action, a Wordsmith who has posted a Proposalnym since the last time Acrogenerate was performed may claim 1 point.” with

A Wordsmith’s EVC on a Proposalnym should contain the word “Valid” if that Wordsmith believes the content of the proposal fits the title that was given to it.

When a Proposalnym is resolved, if a quorum of the EVCs made by Wordsmiths other than the Proposal’s author contain the word “Valid”, then the Proposal’s author gains 1 point; unless the author already gained a point from this method for the same Backronym in which case the author does not gain any points. 

The Puzzler is considered to be a Wordsmith for the purposes of this rule.

In the rule “Relationships”, add a subrule named “Accusations” with the following text:

An Accusation is a Story Post where the title begins with the text “I accuse” followed by the name of a Wordsmith and no other text following that name. The author of an Accusation is known as the Prosecutor of that Accusation. The name of the Wordsmith in the title of an Accusation is known as the Defendant of that Accusation. As a Round Action, a Wordsmith may post an Accusation. An Accusation is either Open or Closed and defaults to Open.

At their earliest convenience, the Puzzler should perform a Ruling on the oldest Open Accusation. A Ruling is an atomic action with the following steps, where the terms Prosecutor and Defendant apply to that Accusation on which the Ruling is being performed:
* If that Prosecutor was named as that Defendant’s Rival at the time and date of the posting of that Accusation:
** That Prosecutor gains 1 Point.
** That Prosecutor is removed from that Defendant’s Rival.
** The Puzzler must post a comment to that Accusation with the text “X is guilty” where X is that Defendent.
* If that Prosecutor was not named as that Defendant’s Rival at the time and date of the posting of that Accusation:
** That Prosecutor loses 3 Points, to a minimum of 0.
** The Puzzler must post a comment to that Accusation with the text “X is innocent” where X is that Defendent.

After a Ruling has been performed on an Accusation, that Accusation is Closed.

If you suspect that someone named you as their Rival, you could accuse them and stop being their Rival, but if you’re wrong, you’ll pay a penalty. The Points gain is not as large as the loss because of the strategic value of removing yourself as their Rival.

My intention is not to weaken the Rivals mechanic but to add an extra layer on it, but I’m open to arguments that it goes too far.

Add a new dynastic rule to the ruleset, galled Generosity in Marking:

Each Wordsmith has a Generosity, which is a score between 1 and 5 and which is derived from their own Scorings on other players’ Backronyms. At any time, a Wordsmith’s Generosity is the mean average of the value of their most recent Scorings on the Backronyms posted by other Wordsmiths in response to the preceding two Acrogenerates, not including the most recent Acrogenerate if there are currently open Backronyms posted in response to it.

Any Wordsmith whose Generosity is in the lowest quarter of Generosity values of all Wordsmiths may neither achieve nor declare Victory.

Enact a new rule, positioned after “Backronym”, called “Proposalnym”:-

If a Proposal has a title (not including the “Proposal:” prefix) that would be a valid title for a Backronym made at the moment of its posting, then it is a Proposalnym.

As a Round Action, a Wordsmith who has posted a Proposalnym since the last time Acrogenerate was performed may claim 1 point.

Repeal the rule “Relationships”.

Remove ” or that Wordsmith’s Rival” and “, or X+2 if the Scoring was made by the Backronym author’s Rival, unless X was a 1, in which case record it as the number of Wordsmiths for whom the author of that Backronym is named as their Rival” from the rule “Scoring”.

Add a new rule named “Favorites” with the following text:

Each Wordsmith has Favorites privately tracked by the Puzzler. Favorites are either empty or a list of 1 to 5 words, defaulting to empty. As a Virtual Round Action, a Wordsmith may add words to their Favorites, up to the maximum words allowed, as long as each of the words added to their Favorites meet all of the following criteria:
* The first letter of that word is not one of the letters in the current Acronym
* That word is not in the Word Bank
* That word is not one of the Filler Words

In the rule “Scoring”, insert the following step before the step “Post a comment to that Backronym containing all of the following”:

* For each Wordsmith who is not the author of that Backronym, for each word in that Wordsmith’s Favorites that matched a word in the title of that Backronym, add 1 to that Wordsmith’s Points and remove that word from that Wordsmith’s Favorites.