Thursday, March 28, 2024

Proposal: And the Best Picture Award goes to…...

Withdrawn. Failed by JonathanDark

Adminned at 30 Mar 2024 07:02:35 UTC

New Award:  Best Picture Award


Update Criteria to include:

An Authentic Shot’s Quality Score is equal to the total Satisfying Count of all satisfied criteria by all Seekers that respond and score a Snap.

Update Scoring to include:

When a Seeker posts an Authentic Shot, the Seeker may reduce the Quality Score of the publicly tracked Best Picture Award by 0.5 points.

After 48 hours of a Shot having been posted, any Seeker may at most once respond to it stating the Shot’s Quality Score by totaling all satisfied criteria from all Seekers that responded to score a Snap.


In the rule Awards replace the second paragraph with:

At any time, if a Seeker has met the Standard for a General Award then they may claim it by making a blog post announcing as such and then incrementing their Awards by 1. A Seeker may only claim each General Award once in the dynasty.

At any time, if a Seeker has met the Standard for a Singular Award then they may claim it by making a blog post announcing as such and then incrementing their Awards by 1, and decrementing the current Awards of the Seeker holding that award by 1. Only a single Seeker can hold a Singular Award in the dynasty.

Each Singular Awards ownership will be publicly tracked with its associated owner and any Award criteria.

Add a default Best Picture Award to the Photo Gallery with a default score of 0 and the date and time of this rules adoption.

Update the rule Awards, to rename Award table to General Award table and to include:

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Singular Award !! Standard
|-
| Best Picture || Post a Snap, after the last recorded date of the current Best Picture Award, that has a Quality Score greater than the Quality Score of the current Best Picture Award. Update the public tracked Best Picture Award to include the Seekers username, Snap Name, Snap Date and Time, and Quality Score.
}


This creates an award type that isn’t shared that only one person can hold. The decay in the Quality Score for Best Picture is to ensure that it isn’t just a simple high score but creates an award that can change hands.  There’s always something new coming…..

posted by Nad at 28 Mar 2024 12:23:00 UTC Comments (7)

Comments

Josh: he/they

28-03-2024 17:14:28 UTC

for

Chiiika: she/her

28-03-2024 18:30:20 UTC

I feel that this can drag the dynasty longer than necessary. against

Nad: he/him

28-03-2024 19:05:02 UTC

I think the dynasty won’t end without more awards.  Maybe make it just a high score would be better (not one that changes after the score is high enough)

Josh: he/they

28-03-2024 19:35:54 UTC

I don’t think that the dynasty is running long - at under three weeks it’s still on par - and the five-awards VC is achievable within a reasonable timescale, this one included.

Increasing the number of awards available will make the game more winnable rather than less.

JonathanDark: he/him

28-03-2024 19:45:59 UTC

for

Clucky: he/him

28-03-2024 23:21:19 UTC

The “At any time, if a Seeker has met the Standard for a Singular Award then they may claim it by making a blog post announcing as such and then incrementing their Awards by 1, and decrementing the current Awards of the Seeker holding that award by 1. Only a single Seeker can hold a Singular Award in the dynasty.”

1) How is the “Seeker holding that award” actually defined? I’m not sure it is. So this could allow whoever first meets the standard for the singular award to claim it over and over until they reach 5 awards.

2) There is also an atomic action loophole here. You could start the “claim a singular award” action several times, run the action until the point of the increment but not the decrement, and then argue that your awards are five and you achieve victory, then finish processing the actions and sure your awards plummet but you’ve still achieved victory.

So I’m for the idea in general, but think the safe vote is against

Nad: he/him

29-03-2024 13:03:57 UTC

against

I can see that this may need a little tightening up.  I will withdraw it and make a few changes and maybe resubmit.