Monday, July 14, 2008

Proposal: Can’t we all just get along?

Self-vetoed—Rodlen

Adminned at 15 Jul 2008 10:03:37 UTC

Repeal rule 2.5 Rivals.

I can see this getting way out of hand and could become a lot of work very quickly for enacting admins having to check every vote to make sure they voted correctly .

Comments

Dustin:

14-07-2008 03:50:36 UTC

for

Amnistar: he/him

14-07-2008 04:05:20 UTC

against

It only comes up once.  You do a quick scan of whether or someone’s rival is the proposer.  If not? No problem.  If so? Said individual is either against or no vote.

Amnistar: he/him

14-07-2008 04:19:21 UTC

however, should evidence arive such that is IS getting out of hand, then I would be fine with repealing the rule.  I just think Yoda is over-reacting.

Darknight: he/him

14-07-2008 04:19:23 UTC

against

Darknight: he/him

14-07-2008 04:20:06 UTC

as amnistar said, its ok right now

Clucky: he/him

14-07-2008 10:59:03 UTC

for

But I’m all for readding it at a later point. This just gets Amnistar off my back.

Oze:

14-07-2008 14:40:47 UTC

for

Rodlen:

14-07-2008 15:58:47 UTC

for

Yoda:

14-07-2008 16:46:51 UTC

I said this CAN get out of hand very quickly.

Amnistar: he/him

14-07-2008 16:51:20 UTC

Sure, but it’s not.  You’re nixing a rule that allows for fun because of the potential for it to get out of hand.

Seems like I’d wait to see if it did or not.

Clucky: he/him

14-07-2008 17:56:28 UTC

If its that hard to keep track of you shouldn’t be an admin. It takes five seconds to look in the GNDT on the sidebar and check that guys rival.

CoV against

Yoda:

14-07-2008 19:35:11 UTC

The way I see it, this rule was born out of a small feud between 2 players.  I think it is a bit much to force players to vote against or abstain from a proposal that they would have otherwise voted for (case in point, Amnistar’s vote on the proposal “I thought I proposed this already”).

There is currently no mechanic to change your rival once it is set, so a player cannot change their rival to vote for a proposal by their rival.

Also, this presents another problem: what happens if a player votes for another player’s proposal but later sets their rival to the author of that proposal?  Does that for vote still count as a for vote since the vote was actually cast while the player did not have a rival?  If so, then we would have to dig through the GNDT history to validate votes.

In other words, this rule is just plain unnecessary.

Yoda:

14-07-2008 19:36:07 UTC

The reason I didn’t veto it before is because I thought it might make a good mechanic, but now I am reconsidering.

Clucky: he/him

14-07-2008 19:47:06 UTC

People don’t have to have rivals.

“A Adventurer can never vote FOR a proposal authored by their Rival. Any FOR vote on such a proposal (or a vote that would count as a FOR vote) is instead an Abstain.”

If I vote FOR your proposal and then make you my rival, I have cast a vote that counts as FOR and thus is an abstain. seems pretty clear to me.

Yoda:

14-07-2008 20:23:27 UTC

I still think the rule is unnecessary.

Amnistar: he/him

14-07-2008 20:55:29 UTC

There’s no real rivalry…Clucky and I are, if anything, friends, I just thought it would be a fun mechanic.

Amnistar: he/him

14-07-2008 21:12:59 UTC

“I still think the rule is unnecessary. “

No rule is neccessary.  The question is, is it fun?

Answer: To at least some of us; yes.

If you want it gone, that’s fine, but don’t try and defend your desire to remove the rule because you don’t like it by claiming it is ‘more work for the admins’.

Darknight: he/him

14-07-2008 21:18:10 UTC

Its not like all of us have a rival right now anyway Yoda. Only 4 of us have set a rival, that leaves 10 of us that you won’t have to worry about. I don’t see how thats gonna make things harder on the admins, given that most of us are admins and we did vote this in to begin with lol

Yoda:

14-07-2008 21:56:19 UTC

Like I said, even I voted for this to begin with, but now I’m seeing that it is getting annoying.

Darknight: he/him

14-07-2008 21:58:41 UTC

yoda, honestly, whats so hard about waiting for either another vote or 48 hrs? this rule isn’t causing troube

Amnistar: he/him

14-07-2008 22:07:09 UTC

It’s not even like the proposal we’re waiting on has any effect.  It’s not a gameplay proposal, it is a minor change.

If this were a proposal that would make the ‘game’ start then I could understand the desire to get it passed quickly, but honestly the only effect passing it will do is…nothing because then we’re waiting on this proposal.

Yoda:

14-07-2008 23:21:14 UTC

I will probably try this again later, but I have just made a proposal that will have no effect if this passes due to the numbering of the rules.

So, for now, it’s time for The Return of the Self Veto!!!

veto

Amnistar: he/him

14-07-2008 23:26:31 UTC

All I ask is that you give Rivals a chance.  If you feel that it is holding up the game and making it not fun, then I will gladly repeal the rule, but I’d like to actually see if it is fun first.

Rodlen:

15-07-2008 01:38:50 UTC

Yay, Self-Vetoes!