I would like to unidle.
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Thursday, July 24, 2025
Turn To Page 48
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:
- deodorize
- district
- faction
- manliness
- myself
- poster
- scope
- slogan
- travesty
- 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.
Proposal: Playing Favorites
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.
I know this currently overlaps with the game loop that Kevan proposed. I’m putting this out there as an alternative to guessing at customers’ food preferences, but if the guessing game is preferred, feel free to vote this down.
Proposal: If You Cook It, They Will Come
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.
Proposal: Oregon Trail
quick revise withdrawn w/ 1 non author revise and 1 against, chiiika.
Adminned at 24 Jul 2025 18:43:02 UTC
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
Proposal: Ludonarrative Dissonant [Building Blocks]
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.
Second draft; open for revision.
I feel that the current Bounty rule is underused because it does not match what is expected - Bounties is expected to be (if you do a predefined x; get y) as seen in the use of Bounties in The Coregency of ais523 and Josh; but mechanically it fits more of a “the emperor wants your input” role.
Proposal: Seal Clapping [Building Blocks]
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.
Mentorship
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.
Proposal: Pitches get Stitches
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.
You want to be at the front by the gate, not under the underpass next to the sewage outlet pipe.
Proposal: Trucks in the Night
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’ MenusA 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.)
A basic starting game loop for how menu items generate profits.
Proposal: Start Menu
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.
Ascension Address: The Midnight Broil
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
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 :)
P.S.
A place for the post-dynastic discussion.
Thursday, July 24, 2025
Proposal: Ludonarrative Dissonance [Building Blocks]
illegally pushed in DoV break and not Interregnum, chiiika.
Adminned at 24 Jul 2025 04:10:01 UTC
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.
First draft; open for revision.
I feel that the current Bounty rule is underused because it does not match what is expected - Bounties is expected to be (if you do a predefined x; get y) as seen in the use of Bounties in The Coregency of ais523 and Josh; but mechanically it fits more of a “the emperor wants your input” role.
Call for Judgment: Curtain down; DoV edition
unpopular 0-6, chiiika.
Adminned at 24 Jul 2025 16:42:58 UTC
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
Per Victory and Ascension, proposals may not be resolved with the effect of amending the dynastic ruleset.
Declaration of Victory: D.O.V.
Has a FOR Vote from every Wordsmith. Enacted by Kevan.
Adminned at 24 Jul 2025 11:57:11 UTC
With a post having declared me victorious for having the most points of any Wordsmith, I have achieved victory.
Kevan is victorious
Kevan is victorious due to having more Points than any other Wordsmith.
Proposal: Curtain down
enacted 7+1 v 1, subrule immediately repealed, upholded nothing - chiiika.
Reopened by Kevan as this was enacted before 24 hours were up.
Enacted again by JonathanDark.
Adminned at 24 Jul 2025 21:09:01 UTC
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.
I’m torn on Favourites, but fall down on it being at the discresion of the players in question.
Call for Judgment: Crunching the Numbers
Unpopular, 0-5 with reduced quorum due to Puzzler voting DEF. Failed by JonathanDark.
Adminned at 23 Jul 2025 19:46:50 UTC
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.
23 Jun 2025 13:53:20 was when the rule changes were enacted to set the Point gain for including all of the letters of a Buzzword at 1, so that’s the point at which it would start to matter. I’m adding this as a rule so that the enacting admin of this CfJ doesn’t have to be me, and then the rule itself compels me to make the recalculations.
Once we have an official list of all of the changes in Points, we can then decide what to do next. I intend to hold off on resolving any further Backronyms until we resolve this one way or another.
Tuesday, July 22, 2025
Story Post: Bison Universe: Carry the Kids, Yaks
Adminned at 23 Jul 2025 20:15:29 UTC
It’s time for a trip across the country! However, nobody has heard of airplanes nor cars nor trains, so yaks will be used to carry everything. Can you shave all of your yaks the fastest and arrive at your destination before everyone else?
Buzzword Matching Letters
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.
Call for Judgment: Flipping the Flip-Flop Flops
Enacted popular, 7-0. Josh
Adminned at 22 Jul 2025 19:48:10 UTC
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?”
Acknowledging that the Flop was processed incorrectly on the above two Backronyms and upholding the Resolving of them as the least amount of trouble for moving forward. I’ve already corrected the incorrect gamestate tracking of Points due to the mistake.
Call for Judgment: Flip-Flop Points
Unpopular, zero votes to 5. Josh
Adminned at 22 Jul 2025 16:33:48 UTC
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.
It was pointed out in Discord that I mistakenly interpreted the phrase “any later steps in this action that would award Points to any Wordsmith are skipped” to also include the Points awarded for the median Score. There were only two Flops so far, and I have corrected the incorrect gamestate, so this is to uphold the Resolving of the two mistaken Flop Backronyms and amend the text posted to them as part of their Resolving. There was also one inconsistent Buzzword letter match that needed to be corrected.
Tuesday, July 22, 2025
Proposal: Match Off
Fewer than a quorum not voting AGAINST. Failed 1 vote to 5, by Kevan.
Adminned at 23 Jul 2025 08:53:09 UTC
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.
kinda not wanting to play any more rounds.
Proposal: One Step Further
Unpopular with 1 vote to 7. Josh
Adminned at 22 Jul 2025 11:30:07 UTC
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.
Similar to the LLM discussion, I think its reasonable to go “Hey, no building computer programs to solve this thing” in a dynasty. Not everyone is great at using computer programs, and we’ve definitely had issues in the past where people have felt like the only way to contend in a dynasty was to have your own program. By making this a building block, we can use it on a trial basis and turn it off if people actually want a computational dynasty. It definitely is a little disappointing this dynasty could come down to people’s ability to write a program to figure out a list of possible buzzwords given all the info we know, but too late to do anything about it now so instead just set the seeds for the future.
Story Post: Breeding Ultimate Colossal Karate Yetis
Adminned at 23 Jul 2025 20:13:39 UTC
A dynasty where you breed giant yetis to partake in a kaiju sized karate tournament to the death.
Story Post: Buy Up Cloth, Knit Yarn
Adminned at 23 Jul 2025 20:11:29 UTC
A dynasty centered around acquiring materials for textile projects and making patterns with the materials.
Rise and Shine
I hereby request to be unidled, since the Endgame Wordsmiths list is now in effect and I will not be able to win.
Proposal: Better Ununequal Contests: Kept Yielding
Unpopular with 1 vote to 5. Josh
Adminned at 22 Jul 2025 11:29:29 UTC
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”
Story Post: Building Up Competitive, Kooky Yachts
Adminned at 23 Jul 2025 20:09:45 UTC
Wacky Races takes to the sea! In this dynasty, Racers need to balance the speed, durability and maneuverability of their custom built yachts while also ensuring their yacht oozes with distinct style and personality that makes everyone go “wow, they really Built Up a Competitive and Kooky Yacht!”
Prioritisation for the Puzzler
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?
Story Post: Baking Unusual Cakes, Kabobs, and Yogurts
Adminned at 23 Jul 2025 20:07:44 UTC
A dynasty based on reality cooking shows like Iron Chef, where players choose from a pool of diverse ingredients to make a dish, and a panel of judges, likely the other players, score the dishes made.
Story Post: Broil and Unload Cooked Kebabs in the Yard
Adminned at 23 Jul 2025 20:06:26 UTC
Skewer, grill, plate, serve. Skewer, grill, plate, serve. The street food market is bustling tonight, with customers lining up at every food truck. There are sure to be some influencers and food critics in the crowd, not to mention tourists with serious money to spend. Could this be your chance to make it big?
Story Post: Blueprints for Unstoppable Computers in Kiloparsec Yonder
Adminned at 23 Jul 2025 20:04:25 UTC
Players are intergalactic shipping companies building automated ships to explore the galaxy; mine for resources and claim dominion over the infinite expanse.
Story Post: Barrels Unloaded at Coppers, or, the Kinetics of Yield
Adminned at 23 Jul 2025 20:00:50 UTC
A genre of game that BlogNomic has never really considered is arcade action-puzzle video games, things like Tetris, Puzzle-Bobble, Dr Mario, Wilmot’s Warehouse, or indeed, the original Donkey Kong, in which a giant ape yeeted barrels at an oncoming plumber. This dynasty will consider that space - how to systematise, in a blog format, the sense of ordering, sorting and evading, with or without the pressure of a ticking clock, while playing as policemen of Scotland Yard on the trail of a rogue cooper and his barrel cannon. Certainly more of a sandbox dynasty than anything else.
Proposal: Strengthening LLM prohibitions
Unpopular with 5 votes to 6. Josh
Adminned at 22 Jul 2025 11:28:31 UTC
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.
Aside from any gameplay considerations, I do have some copyright concerns, and think we should be cognisant of the potential for other players not to wish for their data to be fed into the plagiarism machines.
Proposal: General LLM Ban
withdrawn, chiiika.
Adminned at 22 Jul 2025 04:48:31 UTC
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.
Proposal: Buzzwords Undisturbed by Cognitive Knowledge Yielder
withdrawn; chiiika.
Adminned at 22 Jul 2025 04:48:04 UTC
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.
Monday, July 21, 2025
Story Post: Butcher Unprocessed Corpses and Knit Yarn
Adminned at 23 Jul 2025 19:54:35 UTC
The First Dynasty of Geran had us raising sheep. The Fifth Dynasty of Ais523 had us being the sheep. Subsistence farming and shepherding are part of Blognomic’s roots.
But this time, we’re leaving the shepherding to the NPCs.
This time, our job is to turn their hard work into the very essentials for survival. Preserve the meat, card the wool, and knit the socks, because the men in the hills with the sheep are counting on us.
Proposal: Boring Ugly Coincidence Killjoys You
enacted 6-2 by chiiika.
Adminned at 22 Jul 2025 04:47:34 UTC
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
This proposal isn’t moot because there could be a tiebreaker round. It’s just bad luck that we keep rolling the narrowest Acrotype, but the combination of a predictable theme and a predictable set of possibilities led to an exhausting amount of prep, and I think we should avoid another repeat for the tiebreaker.
Story Post: Endgame Acronym: B_U_C_K_Y
Prompt: Theme for a Future Blognomic Dynasty
Sunday, July 20, 2025
Proposal: FavorCoin v1.1
Unpopular, 2-5. Failed by JonathanDark.
Adminned at 21 Jul 2025 21:14:46 UTC
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.
Story Post: Key Engineer in VLSI Advancement Nominated
Adminned at 20 Jul 2025 20:28:21 UTC
Lynn Conway, a computer scientist who pioneered VLSI for microchips that powers current electronics in the 1970s; is nominated for IBM Lifetime Achievement Awards. She was working with IBM at the start of her career; but was fired by then-IBM’s CEO as IBM was alerted of Conway’s gender transition. In 1977; Conway wrote the book Introduction to VLSI Systems and taught a lecture about it, which began the Mead-Conway VLSI revolution. In August 2020; IBM, in an online event apologized for its firing of Conway and awarded Conway with IBM Lifetime Achievement Award.
Friday, July 18, 2025
Story Post: Killing Erupts Violently in Autocratic Nation-state
Adminned at 20 Jul 2025 20:14:29 UTC
18 May 1980
Gwangju, South Korea — A series of student-led demonstrations has just erupted against the military dictator Chun Doo-hwan. The ROK is actively suppressing the protests, and has been firing on the students. At least 165 people are confirmed dead, with the death toll rising every hour.
Proposal: Less Repetitive Names Acrotype
Popular, 7-0. Enacted by JonathanDark.
Adminned at 19 Jul 2025 21:52:37 UTC
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
Story Post: Kiev Encirclement Victory Achieved for Nazis
Adminned at 20 Jul 2025 20:12:32 UTC
The Battle of Kiev (1941) was a major Axis victory in which a large Soviet force was encircled near Kiev and subsequently dealt very heavy damage to. It isn’t pretty history but it did happen.
Friday, July 18, 2025
Story Post: Kepler’s Exoplanetary Validation and Announcement News
Adminned at 20 Jul 2025 20:10:25 UTC
In 2014, NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope confirmed Kepler-186f to be the first Earth size exoplanet discovered in the habitable zone of another star. Kepler-186f was discovered orbiting a red dwarf star about 500 light-years away from Earth in the constellation Cygnus.
Proposal: Kicked Entity Vitiated Affiliation. Normalize.
Reached quorum 5 votes to 3. Enacted by Kevan.
Adminned at 19 Jul 2025 08:11:25 UTC
Repeal the rule “The Sports Field”.
This is over. No need to leave extra scars.
Proposal: Kept Elicited Values Anchored at Newtides
Fewer than a quorum not voting AGAINST. Failed 3 votes to 6 by Kevan.
Adminned at 19 Jul 2025 08:10:41 UTC
Rewrite The Sports Field into
The idle Wordsmith DeactivatedUser4498 formerly known as Raven1207 may not be made unidle in the Sixth Dynasty of JonathanDark.
two reasons
1: for any future viewers of this ruleset; i think this is something we chose as a collective and should be recorded as such
2: for bureaucracy and functionality of the rules given Raven1207 does not exist as a referrable user.
Call for Judgment: Knowing Each Variance of Ascension Nits
Popular, 6-0. Enacted by JonathanDark.
Adminned at 17 Jul 2025 21:44:00 UTC
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”
One of the steps in the Dynastic Reset is “Update the gamestate tracking page referred to in the rule “Ruleset and Gamestate” with the name specified in the most recent Ascension Address” and it looks like that step wasn’t done for this dynasty or the previous one. Since DoVs uphold actions in their respective dynasties, we just need to uphold the latest Dynastic Reset and fix it.
Story Post: Kleptocrats Ensnare Venezuela’s Asamblea Nationale
Adminned at 20 Jul 2025 20:06:22 UTC
The December 1999 rewrite of Venezuela’s constitution replaced the bicameral legislature with a unified one called the Asamblea Nationale. Due in part to an opposition party boycott, on July 30, 2000, the Fifth Republic Movement took a majority of the seats. They used their newly unchecked power to revoke the autonomy of state-owned oil company PDVSA, and seized enough of its revenue to pay their political allies that it became financially unsound despite its legal privileges. Their ability to direct oil revenue to buy votes allowed them to maintain long-term power and to nationalize and plunder most of Venezuela’s large industrial enterprises .
Proposal: Key an Economised Variety of All Numbers
Fewer than a quorum not voting AGAINST. Failed at 1 FOR, 1 AGA, 3 REVISE, by kevan.
Adminned at 19 Jul 2025 08:10:05 UTC
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.
The Pool proposal revised as requested: only four numbers, and more thoughtful reflection.
I’ll omit the one-round delay since we’ve just started this one.
Call for Judgment: Deactivation
Reached quorum 5 votes to 0. Enacted by Kevan.
Adminned at 17 Jul 2025 20:49:04 UTC
Rename the player who holds account #4498 to “DeactivatedUser4498”.
This is a player who asked me to deactivate their account today, and who has just been idled. Their username can only be changed through the rules of the game, so it must go to a vote.
Renaming the account will change the name given on all of this user’s past posts and comments.
Story Post: Korea Exchanges Volunteer Army Nationals
Adminned at 20 Jul 2025 20:03:15 UTC
Prisoners on both sides of the Korean War were exchanged at Panmunjom in 1953, following the signing of the Korean Armistice Agreement. Members of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army, deployed by Mao as the “Volunteer Army” to avoid any complications of a direct war with the United States, were among those exchanged.”
Story Post: Khrushchev Enjoys Volatile Accomplished Notoriety
Adminned at 20 Jul 2025 20:01:22 UTC
Nikita Khrushchev led the Soviet Union from 1953 to 1964 and gained much popularity from sponsoring the Russian space program, most notably the launch of the first satellite Sputnik. His popularity went into decline after the failure of his domestic policies and the aftermath of the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Story Post: Kennedy Emerges Victorious Atop Nixon
Adminned at 20 Jul 2025 20:00:10 UTC
JFK defeats Richard Nixon in the 1960 United States presidential election, becoming the youngest president ever.
Story Post: Königsberg Electorate Votes for Agrarian Nationalism
Adminned at 20 Jul 2025 19:58:02 UTC
In the 1933 elections the German region of Königsberg voted 54% for the National Socialist party. The East Prussian capital became known as ‘Hitler’s Fortress City’ and as such came under heavy attack from the British air force and the Soviet army at the end of the war. The book ‘German Blood, Slavic Soil’ illustrates how the Nazis adapted their message to a particularly agrarian-populist variant of their ideology in order to win over the rural electorate, and how this led to problems later when the underlying ethno-nationalist policies of the Reich resulted in a need to separate Germans, Poles, and Lithuanians in order to put their ethnic cleansing into practice.
Proposal: Kindling Engagement in Various Ancillary Notations
Withdrawn. Josh
Adminned at 17 Jul 2025 19:54:34 UTC
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.
I haven’t managed to latch on to a good use for the Favourites mechanic yet. I might be alone in this, but it feels like a huge shot in the dark. A bit like the Coins mechanic, I’m exploring whether it can be made into something more interesting.
Wednesday, July 16, 2025
Story Post: New Acronym: K_E_V_A_N
Prompt: Historical Event
Proposal: The direct approach
Reached quorum 7 votes to 1 AGA, 1 REVISE. Enacted by Kevan.
Adminned at 17 Jul 2025 18:17:21 UTC
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.
This feels a little icky, and I’m going to weigh up shifting to authoral DEF on it, but we’ve had a bit too much discourse in this dynasty about how to manage players who are barely active, so it is time to at least test the marker of more extreme sanctions.
To recap: Raven has been submitting nonsense Backronyms for the last few rounds, and has largely made their Scoring contributions blindly, with all Backronyms getting the same score and the same comment. There is little evidence that he is engaging with the subject matter of proposals when voting on them, and he is not making proposals of his own. In all senses, his approach to the game is minimum-viable; not really playing, but still present.
Is this important? Maybe. In a normal dynasty, it would be annoying. Barely-present players do harm the game. This is explored in various essays; I’ll not reproduce the argument here. But in this dynasty it has a greater effect in perverting outcomes. By increasing the top end of the scoring range, it contributes to a flattening of scores such that front-runners become much harder to catch. It prevents posts that would be flops from being flops. It creates a predictable field in which to farm for favourites. In short: it changes what should be a fair game into one in which exploiting the actions of the rogue player becomes a mechanic. This is not a hard dynasty; the rules are not ornate. Playing the game in its intended spirit is not a heavy lift.
At a certain point, we are not being asked to respect a playstyle, so much as we are asking to chose between them. The imbalanced field is pushing away good players. It is encouraging games that can bear being disrupted by players who aren’t really playing and don’t really care. Do we want BlogNomic to be a game where wide-ranging, free-wheeling, creative thinkers come to test the boundaries of play with other people who will challenge and inspire them? Or do we want it to be an insipid vehicle that carries the disiniterested and listless? It is becoming more and more the case that those are contradictory positions. If we want the game to be one thing or another then we need to assert some principles. Today, the principle that I want to defend is that that we would prefer that players only play when they can offer their focus and commitment.
This point has been made before. It has been made in such a way that allowed other players to recognise and remedy their own approaches to the game. Raven has persistently refused to take accountability for their impact on the game. It is time that we at least considered enforcing the kinds of standards of play that we want to see in the game.
Needless to say, if Raven’s vote on this proposal contains a commitment to play the game properly then I’ll withdraw the proposal.
Proposal: Greg Davies’ Eyebrows
Fewer than a quorum not voting AGAINST/REVISE. Failed 1 vote to 6 by Kevan.
Adminned at 17 Jul 2025 16:13:28 UTC
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
Requiring players to spread their scores across the range 1 through 5, in order for those ratings to be counted.
Proposal: Teraflop
Reached quorum 6 votes to 1. Enacted by Kevan.
Adminned at 17 Jul 2025 10:56:29 UTC
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
Flops probably shouldn’t score for anyone. If I openly ask another player to include a couple of words in their Backronym because they’re my Favorites, and they obligingly do so, the group should have the option to stop that from paying out to me by voting it down.
Proposal: Favorite Coin
Withdrawn. Failed by JonathanDark.
Adminned at 16 Jul 2025 17:42:12 UTC
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.
Tying coins to Favorites, both making the rewards for Favorite matching and Buzzword covering distinct, and letting good Favorites pay for the removal of bad ones at the cost of disclosing what they were.
Tuesday, July 15, 2025
Dumb Admin Robbed Karma Editing New Entries Distractedly
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”.
Proposal: Casting Off the Lead Weights
Unpopular, 1-6 with 2 DEFs and Puzzler voting FOR. Failed by JonathanDark.
Adminned at 16 Jul 2025 17:41:23 UTC
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”
If there is a Straggler who is not intending on trying to gain any more Points from posting a Backronym, we need not wait on them.
Story Post: Determination Anchors Resolve, Kindling Every Necessary Enduring Dream
Adminned at 16 Jul 2025 18:01:37 UTC
A older native saying, to help those with doubt find the confidence to strive for their goals
Proposal: Declaration Against Receiving Knowledge Employing Neuronic Electronic Devices
revise withdrawn - chiiika.
Adminned at 16 Jul 2025 11:19:36 UTC
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.
adding this back now that my slots are open for stuff like these
Story Post: Donuts Always Return Killjoy Effects, a Needless Example Diabetes
Adminned at 16 Jul 2025 17:59:16 UTC
While fine in moderation, you really gotta watch those sugary treats!
Proposal: Refavouring
Reached quorum 6 votes to 0. Enacted by Kevan.
Adminned at 16 Jul 2025 10:56:14 UTC
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.
Reapplying a proposal I withdrew just now because it still had a bug in it (it would have requested the reset of Favorites that matched active Acronym letters), and we may as well put the AI paragraph in (which was quorate a couple of days ago but I withdrew it because I needed the slot back).
Proposal: Discount All Ravenlike Karma; Enough Numbers for Equitable Debut
Reached quorum 7 votes to 0. Enacted by Kevan.
Adminned at 16 Jul 2025 07:44:20 UTC
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.
On the Discord on Saturday Raven cited this “second-lowest” rule as being a part of their decision to to stick around scoring everyone at five, and said that they could make a proposal later that day to amend the rule, but didn’t.
Not sure how best to draw the line. Putting it at less than half of mean Points (currently 22.5) will at present cut out Raven, and keep Trapdoorspyder in the pack if Raven were to idle.
Tuesday, July 15, 2025
Story Post: Don’t Anger a Raging King and Ensue Necessitated Everlasting Death
Adminned at 16 Jul 2025 17:56:52 UTC
Angering kings is usually not a good idea if you want to stay alive.
Proposal: Don’t Archive Redundant Kinds of Endless Nostalgic Edicts: a Deprecation
popular 8-0 enacted, chiiika.
Adminned at 16 Jul 2025 06:23:20 UTC
Under the rule “Scoring”, remove the text “(if the current Acronym is not RRBM) “.
Now that the acronym is not RRBM, it is redundant and clutters up the rules unnecessarily. Also, under the highly unlikely circumstances that the acronym *does* become RRBM again, it won’t trigger the exception.
Story Post: Drunks Aren’t Remembered Kindly for Eating Nearly Every Doughnut
Adminned at 16 Jul 2025 17:55:50 UTC
Behave yourself when drinking. You might not remember everything that you do but others will.
Story Post: Doofenshmirtz Asked, “Richard Kingsley, Ever Negotiate Edible Dirt?”
Adminned at 16 Jul 2025 17:54:43 UTC
Bizarre quote from a lost Phineas and Ferb episode
Story Post: Deprecation Addicts Reprocess the Knocks; Empowered Notables Eschew Deprecation
Adminned at 16 Jul 2025 17:54:04 UTC
This saying mean that if you want to get famous, you shouldn’t dwell on past failures, whether your own or others’ at your expense.
Proposal: Defining Arbitrage Rewards Knowledge, Ends the Nuisance of Empty Design
Adminned at 16 Jul 2025 06:21:45 UTC
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.
unpopular @ 3-6; chiiika.
Proposal: More Feared, More Favoured
Withdrawn. Failed by Kevan.
Adminned at 15 Jul 2025 08:36:58 UTC
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.
Reproposing Fear of Favour with a fix to the final point-removing clause.
Monday, July 14, 2025
Proposal: Does Anyone Respect Known Endings? No Exit Drama.
Popular 5-0 with 4 DEFs and Puzzler voting FOR. Enacted by JonathanDark.
Adminned at 15 Jul 2025 03:31:41 UTC
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.
Story Post: Don’t Advance Recklessly Knowing Enemies Nearby Earnestly Defend
Adminned at 16 Jul 2025 17:53:18 UTC
It was a simplistic saying in the military, told from every Commander to their Lieutenants, but it held a purpose. No one wanted a repeat of the incident where a young upstart led his regiment in a charge up a hill, completely overconfident of overwhelming the enemy forces dug in on the other side. There was barely anyone alive who fought on the attacking side that day.
Story Post: Don’t Ask for Refunds, Keep Every Nickel and Every Dime
Adminned at 16 Jul 2025 17:52:37 UTC
Old folks where I grew up always said that if you weren’t sure about a purchase, it was better to save your money and not buy it at all than to rely on a shop’s refund policy. The customer service industry has advanced since then, but I still find it to be good advice.
Story Post: Dirt Ain’t Raised Kicking Eagle Nests or Earthworm Dung
Adminned at 16 Jul 2025 17:51:39 UTC
An old Tennessee proverb about ensuring that your effort is put to actions that meet your objectives
Story Post: Descriptions Are Rope, for Keeping Entitled Nagging Editors Delighted
Adminned at 16 Jul 2025 17:50:36 UTC
scribbled on the draft that is mistakenly sent to the editor instead of a friend.
Story Post: New Acronym: D_A_R_K_E_N_E_D
Prompt: Popular Saying or Quote
Proposal: Fear of Favour
Withdrawn. Failed by Kevan.
Adminned at 14 Jul 2025 07:18:32 UTC
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.
Missed my chance to get in on this loophole, so I’ll call it out instead: it’s no longer legal to set a Favorite of “ins” or “anded” and score for those filler words, but it looks like it is legal to still have one that you set before that recent rule change was proposed, or while it was pending.
Saturday, July 12, 2025
Proposal: Passive Ratings
Fails 2-6 with only 4 Wordsmiths not voting AGAINST. -Bucky
Adminned at 14 Jul 2025 01:01:38 UTC
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.
Raven1207 has been indiscriminately giving every other player’s Backronym a score of 5 for the last three rounds, and is now adding “I like it” to those scorings, to meet the new requirement that players also include some words with their score.
As I said to Raven in comments on the proposal that added that requirement: if a player is so uninterested in other people’s Backronyms that they don’t feel moved to say anything about them nor even to distinguish them at all, then maybe we should remove that player from the rating process. (They will still score for their own Backronyms.)
Proposal: Axiom Regarding Intelligent Artifice
Withdrawn. Failed by Kevan.
Adminned at 13 Jul 2025 08:42:00 UTC
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.
No reason to think that anyone has been doing this, but we should probably foreground the Community Guideline on LLM text, since writing text is the main gameplay this dynasty and it’s a guideline that not everyone will be aware of. (It was only enacted a couple of months ago.)
Story Post: the Aeon Revenant and the Infernal Aurora
Adminned at 13 Jul 2025 16:12:10 UTC
The world had known peace for many centuries… until the day the night sky burst into flame. Now it is up the the Aeon Revenant to discover the source of the Infernal Aurora and save the world from become nothing more then a ball of ash.
Story Post: Acropolises of the Rectorship: the Intrepid Archaeologists!
Adminned at 13 Jul 2025 16:09:52 UTC
9/10 Blognominireads A must read for young adults! The girls are catching; the world is alluring and the exploration is solid! Get entranced by this story now!
Follow the Intrepid Archaeologists into more adventures! As the Pathfinder Society discovers ruins of the acropolises built by the Rectors eons past; the Intrepid Archaeologists are sent out into the field to explore them; filled to the brim with stories of how the people lived under the rectorship; legacies of the past leaders and how they shaped the world, along with deadly conspiracies shaped by cunning masterminds across time all stack together in the Acropolises left behind by the Rectors! Explore the Acropolises with the girls; and feel the heat between them!
Call for Judgment: Tittle Title
Popular, 6-0. Enacted by JonathanDark.
Adminned at 13 Jul 2025 01:04:18 UTC
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.
A beautiful scam that so very, very nearly worked.
Proposal: Final Tabloids
Illegal proposal, player already had two pending. Flagged by Kevan.
Adminned at 12 Jul 2025 15:31:36 UTC
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.
Friday, July 11, 2025
Story Post: an Arbitrator’s Ransom for the Imminent Armistice
Adminned at 13 Jul 2025 16:01:18 UTC
In a distant land, a centuries-long war rages. However, times are changing. Both sides send out diplomats, to negotiate under the supervision of an Arbitrator. However, just as the treaty is about to pass through, the Arbitrator is mysteriously kidnapped! A team of adventurers must find them and return them home safely, or the fragile peace that the world has settled into would fall into peril!
Story Post: Antelope Riot and an Impolite Apple
Adminned at 13 Jul 2025 15:56:49 UTC
The back of the book is blank and the inside flap is empty. No author is listed. Slowly, the cover glimmers. Surely, someone wouldn’t have bothered with enchanting a book that carried such a rediculous name right? What effects would it even have?
Proposal: Aye! Remove Inactive Aspects!
Revisable, 2-1 with 4 REVISE votes. Failed-revise by JonathanDark.
Adminned at 12 Jul 2025 23:13:27 UTC
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.
No one is using this so why keep it around?
Story Post: Answers in the Remains of Inuit Alaska
Adminned at 13 Jul 2025 15:53:46 UTC
After the death of her grandmother, Amaqjuaq “Amy” Reston is prompted to travel to the heart of rural Alaska in search of understanding more of her family history. There she discovers the truth behind her Anaanak’s stories, in this heartwarming tale that seamlessly blends aboriginal folklore with a modern critic of consumerism.
Proposal: A Rather Important Aspect
Popular, 5-1 with reduced quorum from Puzzler voting DEF. Enacted by JonathanDark.
Adminned at 12 Jul 2025 23:05:47 UTC
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.
Proposal: Admonishing Results of Immediate Actions
Popular, 8-1. Enacted by JonathanDark.
Adminned at 12 Jul 2025 18:53:09 UTC
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.
don’t like the idea of people throwing a random proposalnym to get that point at the end of game.
Story Post: A Ring of Ice and Ash
Adminned at 13 Jul 2025 15:46:15 UTC
Pip, a lowly servant in the tower of the dying wizard Krondor, is unwittingly bequeathed the old man’s most feared artifact, an enchanted ring which has the power to lay waste to the land, or to those who would conquer it. As Pip mourns the death of his master and begins the long journey home across the frozen volcanic kingdom of Gur, the ring’s great power begins to make itself apparent.
Proposal: Without Fear or Favour
Unpopular, 1-7. Failed by JonathanDark.
Adminned at 12 Jul 2025 17:37:23 UTC
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.
Expanding favourites out to proposals and CfJs, as the proposalnym meta is broader and gives more opportunities for an underpowered mechanic to work. Also bringing in one uncontroversial change from a proposal made by Bucky earlier in the dynasty.
Proposal: Assumptions Render Intentions Ambiguous
Withdrawn. Failed by JonathanDark.
Adminned at 12 Jul 2025 17:36:14 UTC
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.
Story Post: Alchemists Randomly Incinerating Apprentices
Adminned at 13 Jul 2025 14:01:50 UTC
Some people thought wizarding school was tough, but it was a cakewalk compared to Alchemy Academy. When a young student named Kai becomes an apprentice in the Academy for the first time, they learn that the fine art and practice of alchemy is much more hazardous to one’s health than they realized. Kai would be lucky to finish next week alive, never mind finishing their first year with good grades! An award-winning YA fantasy novel.
Story Post: Autobiographical Ramblings of an Immortal Architect
Adminned at 13 Jul 2025 13:59:25 UTC
See those ruins over there, the shattered, wind-worn cairns peeking from the tall prairie-grass? Let me tell you how I built those towers, some two thousand years ago, what conspired to bring them down, and why nobody’s asked me to remake them since.
Story Post: Angelic Recoveries of the Inner Abbeys
Adminned at 13 Jul 2025 13:52:24 UTC
A lost masterpiece of 60s speculative fiction, blending vivid psychedelic imagery with an allegorical examination of Judeo-Christian eschatology. The author was a contemporary of Lewis and Tolkien.
Story Post: Astronauts Roaming Inside Adrastea
Adminned at 13 Jul 2025 13:49:14 UTC
Astronauts, Ava and Jose visit one of Jupiter’s moons for their research for terraforming places to escape their dying home, Earth. At first, things are calm at the start but it starts to get more eery the more they roam the the inner depths of the landscape and core of itself until they find something new. Is it a creature, a society, a ruin of what once was? That’s what you have to read to find out.
Proposal: an Antidote for the Rather Incoherently Abandoned
Popular, 9-0. Enacted by JonathanDark.
Adminned at 12 Jul 2025 16:51:33 UTC
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”.
I think this should be enough to clear up the orphan variable issue, since it will then have “a location in which it’s tracked”.
Proposal: [Building Blocks] Mentee-Mentor Mentorship
Popular, 7-0. Enacted by JonathanDark.
Adminned at 12 Jul 2025 16:48:29 UTC
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.
this should be the final form.
in essence; i don’t believe that it is a good idea that mentors are blocked from talking about nomic strategies when NPC is active; especially when the whole idea of mentorships is to guide new players into nomic. does that create situations where the mentor may know some secret identities of the mentee; or can conspire something in the dark? yes; but when the whole rule is based on good sportsmanship (in the sense that if i were to really conspire and then later say ‘nuh-uh’; there’s not really much that is stopping me apart from the sense of being a good player w/in the community) i think it is better to give the leeway when there is a new player involved.
and; i’m really confused by the second part of this; until i read the proposal back then.
edit 1: reinstated the Interregnum loophole; i was parsing it as the limits of this applies only to mentor-mentee communicaion. i still don’t see the merit of arbitrarily construing the ruleset’s scope to be infinite (hypothetically; if there is a rule “Chiiika must work for 24 hours”; there is zero chance i work 24 hours.)
edit 2: removed references to a unnamed subrule.
Friday, July 11, 2025
Story Post: New Acronym: A_R_I_A
Prompt: Fantasy Book Title
Endgame Orphan Variable?
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.
Proposal: [Building Blocks] Putting the Mentor in the Mentorship
quick revise withdrawn by Chiiika.
Adminned at 11 Jul 2025 08:59:42 UTC
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.
i want to experiment with this form of the proposal first; open to amending later on.
in essence; i don’t believe that it is a good idea that mentors are blocked from talking about nomic strategies when NPC is active; especially when the whole idea of mentorships is to guide new players into nomic. does that create situations where the mentor may know some secret identities of the mentee; or can conspire something in the dark? yes; but when the whole rule is based on good sportsmanship (in the sense that if i were to really conspire and then later say ‘nuh-uh’; there’s not really much that is stopping me apart from the sense of being a good player w/in the community) i think it is better to give the leeway when there is a new player involved.
and; i’m really confused by the second part of this; until i read the proposal back then.
edit 1: reinstated the Interregnum loophole; i was parsing it as the limits of this applies only to mentor-mentee communicaion. i still don’t see the merit of arbitrarily construing the ruleset’s scope to be infinite (hypothetically; if there is a rule “Chiiika must work for 24 hours”; there is zero chance i work 24 hours.)
Proposal: [Building Blocks] Releasing the Tapes
Unpopular, 2-6 with 1 DEF and Puzzler voting FOR. Failed by JonathanDark.
Adminned at 12 Jul 2025 01:26:09 UTC
In the rule “No Private Communication”, replace the text “disclosing what information was discussed” with “containing a full transcript of the discussion”.
As Josh said, let’s not dance around the requirement. Either it’s the full text or it can be a generic summation.
Proposal: [Building Blocks] Putting the Mentee in the Mentorship
quick revise withdrawn by chiiika.
Adminned at 10 Jul 2025 17:54:56 UTC
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.
i want to experiment with this form of the proposal first; open to amending later on.
in essence; i don’t believe that it is a good idea that mentors are blocked from talking about nomic strategies when NPC is active; especially when the whole idea of mentorships is to guide new players into nomic. does that create situations where the mentor may know some secret identities of the mentee; or can conspire something in the dark? yes; but when the whole rule is based on good sportsmanship (in the sense that if i were to really conspire and then later say ‘nuh-uh’; there’s not really much that is stopping me apart from the sense of being a good player w/in the community) i think it is better to give the leeway when there is a new player involved.
and; i’m really confused by the second part of this; until i read the proposal back then.
Proposal: [Building Blocks] Plotting In The Backrooms
Withdrawn. Failed by Kevan.
Adminned at 11 Jul 2025 08:17:12 UTC
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
Please don’t take anything by the title. It’s just for fun. However, it seems to be important to clarify the level of detail required to be revealed.
No Private Communications disclosure
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.
I believe that this compliantly meets the threshold of ‘disclosing what information was discussed’.
Call for Judgment: Pondering Core
failed 0-6 with 1 def resolving to neg; my bad - Chiiika.
Adminned at 10 Jul 2025 17:37:03 UTC
Uphold Chiiika’s enactment of Reform of Recuperative Break Management at 10 Jul 2025 04:23:40 UTC.
Reform of Recuperative Break Management cannot be resolved into the Core Rules because it is missing the [Core] Tag; ref. https://wiki.blognomic.com/index.php?title=Ruleset#Tags.
Proposal: Nominal Yield
Reached quorum 8 votes to 0. Enacted by Kevan.
Adminned at 11 Jul 2025 08:15:31 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.
With Reform of Recuperative Break Management taking the reunidling window down to 48 hours, I don’t think we need this mechanic that was intended to allow 2-3 day breaks any more.
Thursday, July 10, 2025
Proposal: Unfortunate Unidle Timing
Popular, 7-1 with 1 DEF and Puzzler voting FOR. Enacted by JonathanDark.
Adminned at 11 Jul 2025 00:53:03 UTC
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
Don’t obligate people who start Wordsmithing mid-round to post scores during a potentially very short window.
Proposal: Reworking Redundancies, Building Media
Unpopular, 1-5 with reduced quorum due to Puzzler voting DEF. Failed by JonathanDark.
Adminned at 10 Jul 2025 20:39:28 UTC
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.
From what I can see; the Buzzwords is like a bonus that no one hits. This is a bonus that you can potentially hit.
Story Post: Repulsive Renderer for Biohazardous Manifolds
Adminned at 11 Jul 2025 03:32:29 UTC
As demands for increasingly lightweight and easy-to-wear space suits increase; we’re glad to announce the RRBM - by rendering a layer of hard magnetodynamic barrier that passes thru the user harmlessly; it seals the user from any biohazardous manifolds such as the vacuum of space; the sulfurous rain of Venus; or the dust on the Moon. The barrier fits your body; meaning that you can touch it and feel it but it wouldn’t stick to you. The system also include a jet propulsion device for maneuvering and air recycling module.
Story Post: Rapidly Rejuvenating Beakhead Missiles
Adminned at 11 Jul 2025 03:28:41 UTC
Here at AriaMissiles™, we are known for our quality missiles. Every single one of them is beautifuly nanobot-printed, and you select a majestic animal from eons long past to be the beakhead. However, until now, the precious carvings would explode along with the missile. We have just implemented technology that will allow the beakhead to reform itself after detonation, leaving a permanent marker of your strength in the rubble.
Reactivate, Repaint, Bring in for Maintenance
Unidle Chiiika. Quorum raises to 6.
Proposal: Into Words
Popular, 9-0. Enacted by JonathanDark.
Adminned at 10 Jul 2025 20:37:26 UTC
In “Scoring”, replace “along with any flavor text” with:-
and (if the current Acronym is not RRBM) at least one word of flavor text
Requiring players to leave some kind of comment when making each scoring, in future rounds, rather than just the number.
aria to be mentored by Josh
aria to be mentored by Josh until the Sixth Dynasty of JonathanDark has ended and the date is past the 6th of August 2025.
Hello
Hi! I am new, and am requesting to be unidled.
o/
Wednesday, July 09, 2025
Story Post: Replicating Receptacle for Botanical Management
Adminned at 11 Jul 2025 00:29:25 UTC
Ever find yourself in need of quick and easy storage options when working in your home botanical lab? With our (patent pending) self replicating receptacles, now you can keep your work station neat and organized from the smallest sugar carrot to the largest chicken cabbage.
Warning, we are not responsible for any receptacle replication malfunctions. Use at own risk.
Proposal: Remove Rewards for Better Merit
Timed out, 4-4 with reduced quorum due to Puzzler voting DEF. Failed by JonathanDark.
Adminned at 10 Jul 2025 20:36:41 UTC
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”
Don’t think you should be able to actually change your score, but can still give yourself a score to hide which one is yours
Story Post: Roundworm Radar Beeping Machine
Adminned at 10 Jul 2025 22:10:13 UTC
Are you a Druid looking for animal companions, then come on down to Weird Al’s DnD to grab yourself a Roundworm Radar Beeping Machine.
Weird Al’s DnD, where we put the strange in strangest and the odd in oddities.
Proposal: Reform of Recuperative Break Management
enacted 4-3 with 2 def resolved to for by Chiiika.
Adminned at 10 Jul 2025 04:23:40 UTC
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)
Proposal: Pressure Release
Withdrawn. Failed by JonathanDark.
Adminned at 09 Jul 2025 11:12:05 UTC
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”
If a Wordsmith is Yielding, maybe we shouldn’t have to wait on them to post Scorings and penalize them for not Scoring other Wordsmiths’ Backronyms. Yes, they could just idle, but the point of Yielding over idling is the intention to continue playing, just not this particular Acronym round.
Story Post: Raccoon Radar Beeping Machine
Illegal, as “Raccoon” is already in The Word Bank
Adminned at 08 Jul 2025 14:20:13 UTC
Are you a Druid looking for animal companions, then come on down to Weird Al’s DnD to grab yourself a Raccoon Radar Beeping Machine. Weird Al’s DnD, where we put the strange in strangest and the odd in oddities.
Tuesday, July 08, 2025
Proposal: Reduced Report for Both Matching
Popular, 6-0. Enacted by JonathanDark.
Adminned at 09 Jul 2025 11:10:17 UTC
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
It’s quite possible for one word to super-match two different Buzzwords that contain similar letters, but the current rule assumes each Backronym word only triggers the information-granting clause on one buzzword, so this clarifies how the Puzzler’s supposed to handle it by using the Buzzword-list order.
Proposal: Favorite sine flectu
Withdrawn. Failed by JonathanDark.
Adminned at 08 Jul 2025 21:59:51 UTC
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.
They should still work if someone adds an “s” or “ing” to the end.
Story Post: Retrospective Reconstructor for Bicultural Misunderstandings
Adminned at 10 Jul 2025 21:55:06 UTC
Intended for high stakes corporate negotiations, our two-camera facial scanner with cutting-edge expression recognition technology and attached universal language model can determine both when one participant in a discussion offended or confused another to within a tenth of a second, as well as the specific vague communication or linguistic or cultural differences that led to it, within four minutes of the offense.
Proposal: Reduce Raven’s Byproduct on Membership
Popular, 5-1 with 1 DEF and Puzzler voting FOR. Enacted by JonathanDark.
Adminned at 08 Jul 2025 21:58:07 UTC
In “scoring” replace “lowest number of points” with “second lowest number of points”
Giving people who still want to join now an outside chance at winning
Story Post: Rusty Robot Battle Monitor
Adminned at 10 Jul 2025 21:47:19 UTC
The RRBM allows you to observe Rusty Robot Battles from a safe distance. Turns out we still haven’t cured tetanus in the future and so staying away from shrapnel benefits everyone.
Story Post: Reductive Radioactive Blast Missile
Adminned at 10 Jul 2025 21:11:43 UTC
The ultimate in non-lethal solutions to war. Don’t kill your enemies - just shrink them! Guaranteed to scale down biological life forms to at least one-tenth their original size. CAUTION: Lingering radiation in the blast area will continue to produce effects for the next 10,000 years +/- 100 years. Subjects entering the blast area after detonation should wear appropriate shielding and spend no more than 3 days in the area.
Story Post: Repercussive Rocket Boot Modulator
Adminned at 10 Jul 2025 20:56:51 UTC
Nothing will spoil your day more than a pair of rocket boots firing with different propulsive forces! Even the smallest of fuel miscalibrations can be uncomfortable on a long journey. Perfectly balanced at even the highest of speeds, this rapid-feedback manifold modulator fits either heelplate and will ensure that wherever you go, you will always be putting both feet forward!
Story Post: Regressive Retroviral Biotic Manufactory
Adminned at 10 Jul 2025 20:44:48 UTC
A plant that is used to devolve hostile organisms at the genetic level, such as removing antibiotic resistance in bacteria, eliminating animal-to-human transmission in viruses, or selectively de-inbreeding dog breeds.
Proposal: Readily Recognising the Backronym Matters
Reached quorum 4 votes to 0. Enacted by Kevan.
Adminned at 08 Jul 2025 13:27:50 UTC
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.
Removing the temptation for players to wait for early Secret Backronyms to resolve and have their author publicly identified, before using that information to cast (or change) a Score on a later one. This proposes that the Puzzler can’t start closing the Backronyms until all of them are closable, and that further Scores can’t be posted while he’s doing that.
Story Post: New Acronym: R_R_B_M
Prompt: Fictional Futuristic Device
Reminder that all Acrotypes will be Secret from here on out unless the rules are changed.
Sunday, July 06, 2025
Proposal: Endgame Unending
Popular, 6-0 with 1 DEF and Puzzler voting FOR. Enacted by JonathanDark.
Adminned at 07 Jul 2025 17:47:45 UTC
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)
Patching the greater/less oversight in Keep Endgame Verdict Absolutely Nonrandom.
Saturday, July 05, 2025
Proposal: Secret Offshore Bank Accounts
Popular, 7-0. Enacted by JonathanDark.
Adminned at 07 Jul 2025 12:28:59 UTC
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.
During a Secret Acrotype, words don’t get added to The Word Bank until the start of the next Acrogenerate, allowing folks to still anonymously post Backronyms and adhere to the current Word Bank while eventually contributing their titles to the Word Bank for the next round.
Proposal: Secret Bank Accounts
Withdrawn. Failed by JonathanDark.
Adminned at 07 Jul 2025 12:27:31 UTC
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,”
Seems like there’s a fair number of people in favor of keeping the Acrotype Secret, but also keeping the Word Bank in play. Why not both?
Story Post: Kremlin: Eternally Vying for the Adoration of the Nation
Adminned at 07 Jul 2025 12:38:38 UTC
In Russian politics, to be loved is to be feared, and to win the national heart of the people is to rule with strength and indomitable will. Can you balance the ruthlessness of purging your political rivals with successfully managing one of the largest countries on earth to be the most beloved leader of the Russian people? A game of negotiation, resource management, and push-your-luck, for 2-5 players.
Saturday, July 05, 2025
Bowing Out
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.
Story Post: Killer Expansion: Vampires Aliens Nuns
Adminned at 07 Jul 2025 12:37:24 UTC
In the newest expansion to the hit board game, Global Takeover, three new factions emerge, ready to claim the world for their own. Drain your opponent’s will as hungry vampires, abduct and probe you’re way to victory as invading aliens or spread godly fear as ruler wielding nuns.
Story Post: Knights of England: Vassals And Nobles
Adminned at 07 Jul 2025 12:35:22 UTC
Another exciting expansion in the classic tile laying game series.
Proposal: Knowledgable Encouragement Vitiates Anonymity Norms
Timed out and failed, 6-1. Josh
Adminned at 07 Jul 2025 07:27:26 UTC
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
By putting this in a subrule of Scoring, “The Puzzler is considered to be a Wordsmith” applies to it.
Proposal: Keeping Expression Values Adaptable Naturally
Times out Unpopular 2-3. -Bucky
Adminned at 06 Jul 2025 19:44:42 UTC
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.
Allowing players to slowly shift their favorites list if they decide they want to change its layout over time
Story Post: Kindled Emotions: Valentines, Accusations and Nuptials
Adminned at 05 Jul 2025 22:40:04 UTC
Race to capture a fellow player’s heart tokens before they do the same to each other. Buy time by causing breakups and breakdowns, because only two of you will win.
Proposal: Keeping Evasive View, Anonymous Neophite
Timed out and failed, 3-3. Josh
Adminned at 06 Jul 2025 10:46:36 UTC
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.
Anonymous entries might be more fun.
Proposal: Keep Endgame Verdict Absolutely Nonrandom
Popular, 4-0 with 1 DEF and reduced quorum from Puzzler voting DEF. Enacted by JonathanDark. Skipped the instruction to replace “If the result is greater than or equal to the Threshold” as that text no longer exists.
Adminned at 05 Jul 2025 13:53:06 UTC
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)
Tied endgame scores are quite likely to happen, with how close the scores are. We could just run another round of Endgame if that happens, instead of flipping a coin.
Friday, July 04, 2025
Proposal: Reverse Polarity
Reached quorum 7 votes to 0. Enacted by Kevan.
Adminned at 05 Jul 2025 12:03:57 UTC
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”.
Threshold increases as the median Wordsmith Points increases. I’m pretty sure we want the chances of going into the Endgame to be greater as the Threshold increases, not less.
Example: When the Threshold is 1 (median Wordsmith Points is 21), the chance of rolling greater than or equal to 1 is 100%. When the Threshold is 20 (median Wordsmith Points is 40), the chance of rolling reater than or equal to 20 is 5%.
The other part of this is when “Replacing Unoccupied Sets Tactfully” was enacted, it pushed out the doubling of Points gained during Endgame to a different sentence, likely because the author didn’t anticipate the Proposal that added the Endgame doubling clause in. I’m attempting to restore the original intention that I think it was.
Story Post: Kaiju Emergency! Vangaurd Against Nemesis
Adminned at 05 Jul 2025 22:37:57 UTC
A co-operative game about a government-sponsored mech programme battling extradimensional kaiju incursions.
Story Post: Kitchen Exorcism Venture: Anchovy Nastiness
Adminned at 05 Jul 2025 22:34:10 UTC
In the latest installment of the viral Kitchen Exorcism Venture board game series, we enter into a pizzeria and attempt to clear away a ghost which has been maliciously sneaking anchovies onto the customer’s orders. Will the crew find the ghost quickly enough, or has it been a vengeful saboteur the whole time?
Proposal: Keys for Extraordinary Variance Around Names
Fewer than a quorum not voting AGAINST. Failed by JonathanDark.
Adminned at 05 Jul 2025 00:03:52 UTC
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
Turns out the blog has a limit of 100 words in a proposal title.
At 14 letters, “Trapdoorspyder” could easily run into problems where people can’t otherwise post a valid Backronym and are limited to using really short words. Would rather just use “TDS” or some other shorter name they want to pick.
Story Post: Kings Evacuating Vaticans Around Netherlands
Adminned at 05 Jul 2025 22:21:53 UTC
Story Post: Kingdom of the Eight Viziers: Arabian Nights
Adminned at 05 Jul 2025 22:18:22 UTC
The king is in poor health, and as such the real political power rests with his eight Viziers. Collect power, exert influence, and looks for ways to shift and twist the story towards your favor in this drafting game for 3-8 players
Proposal: Secret Agent Man
Popular, 8-0 with 1 DEF and Puzzler voting FOR. Enacted by JonathanDark.
Adminned at 04 Jul 2025 23:57:46 UTC
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,”
When the Acrotype is Secret, the Puzzler can add in their own Backronym to help obscure the authors of the others, but nobody gains or loses Points on the Puzzler’s Backronym.
Proposal: Timezone Fairness
Popular, 8-0 with 1 DEF and Puzzler voting FOR. Enacted by JonathanDark.
Adminned at 04 Jul 2025 23:56:07 UTC
Give the following Wordsmiths 1 point each:
Bucky
Trapdoorspyder
Josh
There was a three hour window in which people could collect their Proposalnym point from “RUST”. Not really fair to the people who weren’t online to collect it.
Story Post: New Acronym: K_E_V_A_N
Prompt: Board Game
Reminder that this is a Secret Acrotype, so send your Backronyms directly to me for posting.
Proposal: Deferentials Upon Deferentials [Appendix]
Popular, 5-2. Enacted by JonathanDark.
Adminned at 04 Jul 2025 23:52:45 UTC
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.
We’ve had a few cases this dynasty of players voting DEF on the Emperor’s DEF, and because these votes “are not considered to be valid”, we’ve had to duly wait (in some cases for the full 48 hour proposal timeout) to see if they might cast a FOR/AGA vote on it, in the same way that we’d wait for someone who hadn’t voted at all.
Maybe it would make more sense to also count these votes as abstentions? Even in cases where the player DEF is cast before the Imperial DEF, it still seems fair to interpret it as “I will vote FOR if the Emperor votes for, AGAINST if they vote against, and abstain if they abstain”, if they don’t check back in later to reconsider their vote.
Wednesday, July 02, 2025
Story Post: Researcher for Uniform Science and Technology
Adminned at 03 Jul 2025 18:54:32 UTC
Originally, the motto of Sir Edwin’s Academy had been something to do with having strength in the face of adversity. Then adversity had come knocking at their doorstep, and half the faculty left in the middle of the night. The phone lines were down. The lights kept flickering. The wrought-iron fence had grown 4 feet taller by sunrise. It was very clear that the Academy had entered the Borderlands– what was less clear was how they were going to get out.
The principal, of course, decided that they weren’t. He’d run the boarding school for decades now. With an entire school’s worth of children and young adults, staying was much safer than any treck outside could be. They had plenty of food in the industrial freezers, and the gardens could be expanded to take over the lawn. He drafted a plan, recruited the near-graduates and the remaining teachers, and started turning Sir Edwin’s into a fortress.
It’s been years since Sir Edwin’s Academy changed. Plenty of the graduates enter into the Borderlands, but many stay, building and refining the place that made them who they are. They’ve got training barracks now, armories and R&D labs, everything they need to keep conquering the wastes around them. Sawyer had been 13 when the Borderlands came knocking on their doorstep. He’d been terrified that next morning, surrounded by other scared kids, his favorite teacher missing from the dining hall. Now he’s anything but scared. He leads the uniform development team, reinforcing the armor each student wears when they exit school grounds. He came up with the RUST position himself, designed 80% of the current uniform on his own. Most of the students that were there that day remained in the Academy after graduation. They won’t run out on the place that raised them.
The motto of Sir Edwin’s Academy used to be something about having strength in the face of adversity. Now, Sir Edwin’s doesn’t have a motto. Its students no longer need one.
Proposal: It’s My Favorite Too!
Withdrawn. Failed by JonathanDark.
Adminned at 04 Jul 2025 02:23:27 UTC
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.
Since everyone seemed to like the idea of Favorites, how about allowing you to gain a little bit of Points on your own Favorites, but more Points if you hold off and let someone else use a word in your Favorites?
Wednesday, July 02, 2025
Story Post: Rural Understudy for Serious Theatre
Adminned at 03 Jul 2025 18:50:48 UTC
Yea I have nothing for this section this time
Proposal: Replacing Unoccupied Sets Tactfully
Timed out, 4-1. Enacted by JonathanDark.
Adminned at 04 Jul 2025 02:17:26 UTC
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.
Do not choose an element of an empty set. Do not divide by zero.
Proposal: Releasing Upheld Scoring Terms
Reached quorum 7 votes to 0. Enacted by Kevan.
Adminned at 03 Jul 2025 16:16:57 UTC
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.
My calculations might be incorrect, but I believe there’s a slim potential for buzzwords that can’t be claimed because they were chosen as buzzwords while already being contained in the Word Bank.
Story Post: Recycling of Unstylish Shorts Tutor
Adminned at 03 Jul 2025 18:47:02 UTC
Having found that people were remarkably inept at doing away with their old, out-of-fashion clothes and therefore infrequently buying new, in-fashion clothes, clothing corporations begin hiring individuals to tutor people in environmentally friendly methods for getting rid of their new clothes so that there would be room in their closets for new ones.
Proposal: Routine Scammer Unveiling Tactic
Reached quorum 8 votes to 0. Enacted by Kevan.
Adminned at 03 Jul 2025 16:01:56 UTC
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”
Story Post: Refurbishment, Upholstering and Sanitization Trainer
Adminned at 03 Jul 2025 14:13:37 UTC
Bob’s Consignment is looking for instructors familiar with all stages of readying damaged and/or soiled furniture for resale to train personnel at each of its individual outlets, with the objective of minimizing transshipping costs and ensuring uniform standards.
Proposal: Radically Undetermined Stopping Time
Reached quorum 5 votes to 1 with an IMP DEF and two unresolved DEFs. Enacted by Kevan.
Adminned at 03 Jul 2025 16:00:23 UTC
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
Adds some randomness to game end. So could pair nice with something like: https://blognomic.com/archive/rest_undisturbed_sweet_thane where not knowing when the dynasty is about to end means you gotta be careful with your scores
Proposal: Repremanding Uninspired Shortcuts Taken
Fewer than a quorum not voting AGAINST. Failed 1 vote to 7 (with 4 REVs) by Kevan.
Adminned at 03 Jul 2025 15:56:48 UTC
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.
Idea is to prevent people from simply throwing up proposals with meaningless titles, instantly withdrawing them, and scoring points from that method.
Story Post: Raccoon Urine Sample Tester
Adminned at 03 Jul 2025 14:08:05 UTC
The job of a raccoon urine sample tester is an important once, as it helps local governments keep track of the rate of disease in their cities. Normally, raccoons are harmless but if the RUST finds a high level of rabies or other diseases in the urine samples, they know countermeasures will need to be deployed.
Proposal: J’Accuse…!
Enacted 5 votes to 1 with no effect, no such rule as “Relationships”. Enacted by Kevan.
Adminned at 03 Jul 2025 15:56:07 UTC
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.
Proposal: Rest Undisturbed, Sweet Thane
Fewer than a quorum not voting AGAINST (2 FOR, 1 IMP DEF, 1 null DEF, 1 REV, 4 AGA). Failed by Kevan.
Adminned at 03 Jul 2025 15:55:20 UTC
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.
Proposal: Rewarding Uniform Suggestion Titles
Popular, 6-2 with 1 DEF and Puzzler voting FOR. Enacted by JonathanDark.
Adminned at 03 Jul 2025 15:52:49 UTC
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.
Really, I’m surprised that we haven’t been doing this anyway.
Story Post: No Private Communication - Report 2
Hello! Earlier in this Dynasty, I messaged both Raven1207 and Darknight, as I had forgotten that No Private Communication was in effect. Raven1207 has provided the transcript of our conversation, but I would like to also provide the transcript of the conversation between Darknight and I.
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DoomedIdeas — 6/19/2025 4:28 PM
Darknight- with both our names starting with D, the 4th most likely letter to be rolled, you and I are both severely disadvantaged by Josh’s proposal. Acronyms can be only 3 letters long- if we get something like BDC, we’re in a much worse situation than other players. Josh will rarely have to worry about the letter J appearing in an acronym, which is probably part of why he proposed it, but you and I are going to have to work around it pretty frequently. I suggest voting Against Josh’s proposal, and in your own proposal, allowing points for using your own name but not making it mandatory.
eberron — 6/19/2025 4:41 PM
Ah true. I haven’t worked the full details of my idea yet but I can cov
DoomedIdeas — 6/19/2025 4:42 PM
I might message Raven as well depending on how they vote, since R will come up about as often as D does- which is to say, about 5.5 times more often than J.
eberron — 6/19/2025 4:44 PM
True. Quick aside, I’m guessing 3 is the average for length rolls from John? I might be misreading his first proposal
DoomedIdeas — 6/19/2025 4:45 PM
No- it’s 3 minimum, 7 maximum, so probably around 5 on average.
They can end up as only 3 letters, if we get a bad roll- that’s what I meant.
eberron — 6/19/2025 4:47 PM
Ah k
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My apologies for forgetting the rule, and for forgetting that I had messaged Raven1207 and Darknight. Thank you!
Proposal: The Fault In Our Stars
Timed out, 4-3 with 2 DEFs and reduced quorum due to Puzzler DEF. Enacted by JonathanDark.
Adminned at 03 Jul 2025 15:46:20 UTC
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”.
Players finding small reasons to give out 1-point reviews is feeling a bit harsh. Maybe we should repeal the Rivals system.
Story Post: Robust United States Typewriters
Adminned at 03 Jul 2025 14:03:42 UTC
Boop
Story Post: Reptile Undertaker and Salamander Thanatologist
Adminned at 03 Jul 2025 14:00:11 UTC
My deepest condolences for the loss of your beloved lizard, sir.
Story Post: Regional Under Secretary for Transport
Adminned at 02 Jul 2025 17:41:46 UTC
We’ll need to know how local congestion pricing would play within the integrated transport strategy. I’ll get the RUST on the line.
Proposal: Playing Favorites
Popular, 7-0. Enacted by JonathanDark.
Adminned at 02 Jul 2025 14:26:59 UTC
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.
Get Points for successfully predicting what words your fellow Wordsmiths will use in future Backronyms if those letters come up.
Story Post: New Acronym: R_U_S_T
Prompt: Job Title
Story Post: No Private Communication Report
Since it has came to the realization that No Private Communication active even to the beginning of this dynasty that I would like also bring up messages from Doom encouraging me to vote against a proposal earlier in the dynasty. More specifically on June 19th 8:37 PM-8:41 PM EST
Story Post: No Private Communication - Report
A few minutes ago, Raven1207 started a group chat on Discord with Darknight and I. The transcript of said group chat is as follows:
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Raven1207.2 — 11:28 PM
Boop
Hey 👋
DoomedIdeas — 11:28 PM
Hello!
What is this for?
Raven1207.2 — 11:29 PM
Well
No private communications is off, right?
DoomedIdeas — 11:30 PM
[A partial screenshot of the rule “No Private Communication”.]
Raven1207.2 — 11:30 PM
Oh nevermind
Raven1207.2 left the group. — 11:30 PM
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I hope this report satisfies the rule. Thank you!