Monday, August 24, 2020

Proposal: Auto-Look Again

Reached quorum 5 votes to 0. Enacted by Kevan.

Adminned at 25 Aug 2020 10:25:45 UTC

Create a new rule called “Automation” with the following text:-

When creating a new Location and its associated Distinct Discovery, a Pathfinder may use the generator located at https://repl.it/repls/TealFewResources (without editing its source code) to make random choices instead of rolling for each separately. This is done by rolling DICE54321, pressing “Run” on the generator page and inputting the result of the roll. The values printed by the generator must then be used instead of making separate rolls.

The generator may not be used if it is Out-Of-Date. If the rules governing the process of creating Locations are changed, the generator becomes Out-Of-Date. The Computer may make the generator no longer Out-Of-Date at any time.

The generator is not Out-Of-Date.

In “Making New Distinct Discoveries”, replace “then add a space and another random Prefix” with:-

then add a space and another random Prefix (in lowercase)

For all Vegetable Discoveries, change the second word of their Name to be lower case.

Reproposing Aname’s Auto-Lookup with a new URL, and code updated to handle the different kingdoms correctly. As far as I understand it, an anonymous code page like that can’t be edited (if you try to, it gives you a new URL), but I’ll add a clause about not editing it.

Also correcting the pseudo-Latin plant names to have their second word in lowercase, while I’m here.

Comments

derrick: he/him

24-08-2020 13:36:52 UTC

for I can find no fault with this.

Kevan: he/him

24-08-2020 13:46:56 UTC

I’m a little nervous about Aname’s system for the generator becoming silently out-of-date without us realising (and possibly immediately, since this proposal immediately and indirectly amends “the process of creating Locations”), so might make a follow-up proposal to address that.

Josh: Observer he/they

24-08-2020 14:47:42 UTC

Is “without editing its source code” strong enough? Can it reasonably be argued, say, “I didn’t edit the source code of the page, just the bit of code in the box in the middle of the page”?

Kevan: he/him

24-08-2020 14:58:07 UTC

What do you mean, arguing that the “it” of “its source code” refers to the whole repl.it website rather than the generator? Seems a bit of a stretch.

I think it’s probably an unnecessary clause anyway, as a generator edited to read “10 print Josh wins” would no longer be “the generator located at https://repl.it/repls/TealFewResources”. (The repl.it website instantly kicks you to a fresh URL if you change the code in the source box.)

Raven1207: he/they

24-08-2020 15:08:35 UTC

for

Bais:

24-08-2020 23:04:58 UTC

for

Aname:

25-08-2020 01:49:26 UTC

for