BlogNomic: The Ninth Dynasty of ais523

The “Pose a Dilemma” step still falls under the scope of the possibility question - if I can’t Pose a Dilemma and want to take another action instead, it arguably “would be possible” for me to Pose that Dilemma (I’d just have to raise a CfJ to amend the ruleset to allow unlimited Dilemma posing), so the ruleset asks me to do that instead of taking the action.

Not sure “and core” is helpful in the action step. It’s saying that if I don’t have time to clear the queue and/or post dilemmas (if I’m busy or just checking in on my phone), I’m not allowed to cast votes either, not even on urgent CfJs.

I’ve added wording to explicitly state that Posing a Dilemma is only a priority if it’s possible to do so without taking any other actions first, other than the higher-priority actions, so that should eliminate the possibility question. I did not address the question of doing things like correcting gamestate if that’s a hindrance to Posing a Dilemma, mostly because the wording is already getting to be a lot.

I also removed “and core”, per your remark.

Corrections are a good point there, given that they’re also core actions.

This is maybe starting to feel a bit excessive for something that became an optional “should”. If players are happy for it to run at the “should” level (where a mistake on my part wouldn’t be illegal and couldn’t be reverted), it could be a single and much more casually phrased sentence about how the City will generally try to create Dilemmas at early in the day and will always clear the queue first if it needs clearing.

You know, that’s a good point. We’re trying too hard to make this a strict priority list, when it could just as easily be a more casual guideline.

I’ve rewritten the whole Proposal to just be the last sentence, but included the “Enact or Fail” part to make clear what actions are recommended. It’s also not its own rule anymore, given that it’s just one sentence.

“If it is possible for the City to Pose a Dilemma [...] the City should do so at its earliest opportunity.” is still more or less using the wording from Never Sleeps, and per my first comment here could maybe be read as asking me to Pose a Dilemma the long way by CfJing.

Although I don’t know whether Josh and Bucky were concerned about both the possibles in Never Sleeps, or just the first, other, one.

Oops, right. I added back in the “without taking any other actions” wording.

And since this Proposal is using “should”, I don’t see it as prohibitive on casting votes for critical CfJs, to borrow your example from earlier.

Yes, “earliest opportunity” also covers that safely: that if I only have a couple of minutes spare then that’s not enough opportunity to clear the queue or write a Dilemma, but it is enough time to vote on a CfJ.

At this point, what is this proposal for? Can’t Kevan just do this of his own volition?

He can, but this is a “love letter” from the rest of us to request him to do this, rather than him having to pull off the Emperor blinds and try to judge what people want.

I’ve said to the group that my Imperial Style will be “when taking any actions [...] will try to be fair to all players”.

I think it’s probably already implicit that it would be fair to process the queue before posting a Dilemma (otherwise the two admin players can get theoretical advantage over the two non-admins by choosing when certain changes enact). It’s less clear when the “fair” time of the day is for me to post a new Dilemma, especially under the Battery Garden - I’m not even 100% sure which timezone each player is in.

Putting it to a vote and writing it in the ruleset means that I don’t have to think about that and players don’t have to second-guess me on it.

aye, codifying this makes it clearer, which i appreciate!