Tuesday, September 14, 2010

Proposal: Battle of Wits

Self-killed. Josh

Adminned at 15 Sep 2010 07:41:50 UTC

I propose that a new dynasty rule is created describing a “battle of wits” in wich the Riddler or a Befuddled who has been aproved by the Riddler to create a “battle of wits” creates an entry with the word Riddle Challange in the title and a riddle in the body of text. The Befuddled are now allowed to comment on the entry with the answer to the previous riddle and another riddle, when a riddle is solved the solver transfers, 2 times the number of previous riddles, IQ to themselves; a riddle that stands unsolved for more than two days closes the battle of wits and awards the final Befuddled’s riddle a medal.

posted by Maximus at 14 Sep 2010 02:53:49 UTC Comments (8)

Comments

Bucky:

14-09-2010 03:37:34 UTC

against .  Too vague; this should describe the exact text of the rule, or else the enacting Admin can write a scam into the final rule.

Darknight: he/him

14-09-2010 06:29:49 UTC

against

Kevan: he/him

14-09-2010 08:13:18 UTC

against Perhaps this should go in the Newbie Guide - because Nomic is a game of precise details and clever loopholes, it’s very important that we vote on the exact wording of a rule, not just the general idea of it.

I like the idea here, although you need to say who the IQ is being transferred from, and I’m not sure the medal really works - it means any player can get a free medal just by writing an impossibly difficult riddle.

Maximus:

14-09-2010 11:58:29 UTC

Thanks, to tell you the truth, i really couldn’t find a detailed description of how to write a proposal so i just sort of winged it. A detailed description of how to propose things would be really helpful.

Maximus:

14-09-2010 12:02:56 UTC

If i vote against this does it “self kill”? against

Maximus:

14-09-2010 12:49:13 UTC

can i propose a fixed version incorpirating your suggestions once this is self killed??

Josh: Mastermind he/they

14-09-2010 15:36:57 UTC

Yes, you can.

If you look at some of the older proposals you’ll get a feel for how they usually go. The simplest template would be a line saying what you want to do (e.g. “Add a new rule to the ruleset, entitled x” or “Start a new competition, entitled x”) followed by the exact text that you want the rule or competition to consist of. This text would usually be in html blockquotes (< blockquote > < /blockquote >, without spaces).

If you want someone to take a look at your next proposal before it goes up I’d be happy to do that.

Maximus:

14-09-2010 20:10:24 UTC

Hey Josh, this is a bit over my head so im going idle but if you want you can take this idea and do whatever you want with it. Thanks for the offer!