Wednesday, October 18, 2023

Proposal: Abracadabra

Withdrawn. Failed by JonathanDark.

Adminned at 19 Oct 2023 16:36:32 UTC

Enact a new rule, “Magic Words”:-

The terms “Duel”, “Squabble”, “Scuffle”, “Affray”, “Brouhaha”, “Clash”, “Quarrel”, “Standoff”, “Bout”, “Quibble” and “Battle” are the Magic Words: they are all considered to be synonyms of each other, outside of this rule.

If they have not already done so during the current dynasty, a Wizard (or the Battle Master) may add a Magic Word to the Forbidden Words list, which is tracked at the end of this paragraph. The Forbidden Words are:

If a Forbidden Word appears in the ruleset outside of this rule, then any Wizard may choose a single non-Forbidden Magic Word and replace the Forbidden Word with that, throughout the dynastic ruleset (except for this rule).

Making the discussed Duel terminology part of the ruleset: the words are all (and always will be) synonyms, but players can opt to veto and change the current main one.

Comments

Josh: he/they

18-10-2023 08:59:19 UTC

This is tidy. I like it.

JonathanDark: he/him

18-10-2023 12:51:08 UTC

Having “Battle” as a synonym doesn’t cause any problems with “Battle Master” as the Emperor title, does it?

Clucky: he/him

18-10-2023 15:59:35 UTC

I think then I just become the “Scuffle Master”

My worry is about how this works with pending proposals.

If I write a proposal that refers to the line “If there is no open or pending duel, the Battle Master may Schedule a Duel” and then someone changes “duel” to “Squabble” then suddenly that line no longer appears and so my proposal does nothing

Josh: he/they

18-10-2023 16:28:57 UTC

@Clucky That was my first thought but the “synonyms” line at the beginning covers it I think.

Josh: he/they

18-10-2023 16:29:07 UTC

for

JonathanDark: he/him

18-10-2023 17:32:09 UTC

imperial

Clucky: he/him

18-10-2023 17:51:14 UTC

I disagree pretty strongly that being synonyms allows you to simply replace one word with another when doing a string comparison. Just because they mean the same thing doesn’t mean the strings are the same

against

Raven1207: he/they

18-10-2023 19:52:51 UTC

against

Kevan: he/him

18-10-2023 20:10:58 UTC

against Withdrawn, I think Clucky’s right on text replacement exceeding the plain English concept of what a synonym is - it wouldn’t fly in other contexts for a replace-X-with-Y to also replace Z, where Z was a different but synonymous word.

Snisbo: she/they

18-10-2023 21:59:26 UTC

imperial