Monday, July 21, 2025

Story Post: Buy Up Cloth, Knit Yarn

Adminned at 23 Jul 2025 20:11:29 UTC

A dynasty centered around acquiring materials for textile projects and making patterns with the materials.

Comments

Clucky: he/him

21-07-2025 21:21:22 UTC

Score 2. If this was submitted before “Butcher Unprocessed corpses and Knit Yarn” I’d give it a 4 or a 5 but feels deeply unoriginal at this point.

Honestly has me worried “Knit” or “Yarn” is a buzzword. But too lazy to do the math there. If someone convinces me otherwise I can bump both my scores on those two to 1s.

Trapdoorspyder: he/him

21-07-2025 21:43:47 UTC

Score 4 - it does seem that it reuses the words, but the context for them seems much more consistent

Bucky:

21-07-2025 21:44:47 UTC

Clucky, “knit” isn’t even on the wordlist.

Clucky: he/him

21-07-2025 22:17:10 UTC

@Bucky it doesn’t matter that its not in the word list

The word list is there to stop people from doing repeats, but that poses a problem when we switched to secret entries as, for example, I think the “Kababs in the yard” entry and the “Kabobs and Yogurts” entry were submitted blindly of each other.

But in this case, this submission was clearly made after the “Butcher Unprocessed corpses and Knit Yarn” submission, meaning even while it was legal under the technical wording of the rules I still think its incredibly unoriginal and thus I don’t want to reward it with much of anything.

Bucky:

21-07-2025 23:03:31 UTC

What I mean is, “knit” cannot possibly be a Buzzword because it isn’t in the EFF word list.

Bucky:

21-07-2025 23:04:54 UTC

Score 2 mainly because of the reused phrase.

Darknight: he/him

21-07-2025 23:39:40 UTC

Score 2 for being too close to other phrases

Clucky: he/him

22-07-2025 00:48:33 UTC

Ah okay. Guess I’ll keep my score as 2 then because this at least would be a fun cozy dynasty

Chiiika: she/her

22-07-2025 07:48:22 UTC

Score 2 because duplicate

Kevan: Yard he/him

22-07-2025 08:49:50 UTC

Score 2 for the verbatim reuse of the best part of another Backronym.

aria: she/they

22-07-2025 23:14:33 UTC

Score 2 for the reused phrase

Josh: he/they

23-07-2025 07:39:02 UTC

Score 2. Aside from anything else, cloth and yarn are unrelated materials.

JonathanDark: he/him

23-07-2025 19:55:20 UTC

Score 3, just to be a little less punishing towards repeats.

JonathanDark: he/him

23-07-2025 20:10:49 UTC

This Backronym is now closed.

None of the words in the title of this Backronym included all the letters of any of the Buzzwords.

Trapdoorspyder gained 4 Points from the median Score (doubled due to Endgame).