Thursday, June 26, 2025

Proposal: Catch-Up on your Acroburger

Withdrawn. Failed by JonathanDark.

Adminned at 27 Jun 2025 03:16:40 UTC

In the rule “Acronym”, insert the following as the third paragraph:

There is a publicly tracked list called Assisted that may be empty or may be a list of one or more names of Wordsmiths, defaulting to empty. A Wordsmith whose name is in the Assisted is considered an Assisted Wordsmith. Each Wordsmith that is not an Assisted Wordsmith is considered an Unassisted Wordsmith.

In the same rule, insert the following steps just before the last step in the Acrogenerate atomic action:

* Set the Assisted to empty.
* For each Wordsmith who has the lowest Points among all Wordsmiths, add that Wordsmith’s name to the Assisted.

In the rule “The Word Bank”, replace “A Wordsmith may not post a Backronym” with “An Unassisted Wordsmith may not post a Backronym”, and just before the text “are added to The Word Bank” insert the text “that are not already in The Word Bank”.

If the EVC on this Proposal of at least a quorum of Wordsmiths contains the word “reset”, in the rule “Acronym” insert the following step just before the last step in the Acrogenerate atomic action:

* Set the Word Bank to empty.

Wordsmiths with the lowest points at the next Acrogenerate can ignore the Word Bank restrictions. Optionally add a Word Bank reset to every Acrogenerate if you add “reset” to your vote comment.

Comments

Josh: he/they

26-06-2025 16:01:49 UTC

against

Kevan: he/him

26-06-2025 18:58:49 UTC

against Lukewarm on catch-up mechanics generally, for being tough on the players who don’t quite qualify and get overtaken.

I’m also quite liking the overfilled Word Bank, so far.

Darknight: he/him

27-06-2025 00:14:27 UTC

against

DoomedIdeas: he/him

27-06-2025 02:27:19 UTC

against Seems a bit much to me. I would like a mechanic for clearing the Word Bank, but maybe we only clear it every few Acronyms, instead of after each one?

Trapdoorspyder: he/him

27-06-2025 02:49:28 UTC

against

JonathanDark: Puzzler he/him

27-06-2025 03:16:13 UTC

Fair enough. Withdrawn.  against