BlogNomic: The Ninth Dynasty of ais523

You’ll want to change it on the Building Blocks wiki page too, otherwise this issue will come right back in the next dynasty that uses it. The blocks are copied from that page to the ruleset every dynasty.

Thanks for the reminder – I usually remember that step but haven’t been very with it recently. I’ve edited it.

Another big reason for the lock is that it keeps the voting discussion readable. Because people generally shift to voting as soon as the window closes, it’s easy to read the comments in two chunks: everything before the first voting icon is potentially referring to earlier drafts, but everything including and after that icon is definitely referring to the current text. Having to mentally divide the latter into votes cast before and after four hours will make it harder to parse what voters have been talking about.

Seems like you’d still want the protection on DEFs, either way, since they may become FORs. If a proposal gets a mild and early “well balanced but a lot of Emperor work, DEF” vote, the proposer might get away with editing it to be less balanced, now that the vote is recorded.

(On overlooking the edit window, the yellow warning banner now starting with a big, mild “If…” can’t be helping here. Can we not just comment this box out if/when an Emperor ever decides that they don’t want an edit window?)

I agree with Kevan’s general point that the simpler prohibition is stronger, and think that clarity of imparting the instruction to newer players should take precedence.

I also agree with Kevan’s point. Let’s keep it simple.

I’ll revert the PHP for the yellow warning banner, and just stay on top of commenting it out when the Edit Window is not enabled.

per Kevan

also per Kevan