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The edit window has moved around a bit over the years, but it feels more like an aspect of what Blognomic is, than how an Emperor or some players want to play one particular dynasty. I don’t think any of the previous changes to it were made for dynastic reasons.

That may be the case, but it feels like it might have evolved somewhat beyond a core concept. There was a recent debate on exactly how players viewed the edit window. We could simply adjust the rules every time the current contingent of active players feels differently, but if the beliefs around the edit window are more volatile, it feels like Building Blocks might be an appropriate answer.

I admit that the edit window isn’t strongly dynastically-tied, but we don’t currently have another mechanism for easily slotting in different rule options where the rule itself doesn’t change, but its presence or absence does, so this was the best fit given what we have now.

I guess one way to think about it is that building blocks can be a way to easily turn on and off commonly-used dynastic rules, but they can also be a way to easily adjust the core rules.

We already have one building block that’s mostly a core rule and not really dynastically-tied (Precondition Unidling), and some current core rules were tested as building blocks before they became core.

For what it’s worth, I have been experimenting with the idea of possible edit window alternatives, and it seemed natural at the to implement them as building blocks – so I came to the same conclusion as JonathanDark there.

This Proposal last year has some good discussion on the issue, and tells me that it’s still not really settled enough to say definitively that the edit window should be considered a guaranteed core concept of BlogNomic.

And of course there’s this essay which, among other things, has a recommendation at the end of removing the edit window entirely, which my Proposal would allow the Emperor or players to do without losing the notion entirely (except for wiki history of course).

I enjoy the prospect of being able to play without an edit window

And this will have it where the author doesn’t have to worry about a player not having their proposal uneditable because of a vote?

If “Protected Edit Window” is enabled, yes

Then it has my vote

[Jonathan] When defining the fundamentals of how to play Nomic in a blog, a democratic “every time the current contingent of active players feels differently” may be the least bad system of government. There are some strong personal opinions, but they go through the discussion filter of how people feel the rule has been working in practice lately, and they can be rolled back by another vote. I’m not sure it’s good for the game if the Emperor can overrule that by fiat upon Ascension, to declare that this month the Nomic is going to be a “can’t correct mistakes after posting” or “early voting allowed but very unwise” one, for no dynastic gameplay reason but just their personal preference.

[ais] Building Blocks are definitely at least three different things! It’d be a good idea to label or annotate them rather than generally presenting them all (including works in progress and emergency measures) as things any Emperor might want to start a dynasty with.