Tuesday, August 12, 2008

Proposal: Clean up

1-3 causes this to fail and clucky’s public relations to sour. Darknight

Adminned at 14 Aug 2008 12:35:48 UTC

Remove the phrase

, including replacing Spivak pronouns with the singular “they”

from the rule “Ruleset and Gamestate”

I personally think its a bad idea not have a standard set of pronouns. But as Spivak isn’t even defined, thats just cluttering the ruleet.

In the rule “Victory and Ascension”

remove

A DoV may not be started in the period between a passing DoV and that DoV’s Ascension Address.

Suppose someone wins and then for an unforseen reason has to go idle. That DoV’s AA would never get posted, and so no one could ever win blognomic. If people want to slow the game down by posting a DoV after someone has won, thats a jerk move but it isn’t any different than if I were to post a DoV right now.

Comments

Yoda:

12-08-2008 15:25:50 UTC

Players use Spivak anyway, so IMHO we should at least put Spivak back into the glossary so new players at least know what it is.

Amnistar: he/him

12-08-2008 15:28:23 UTC

against it doesn’t need to be in the glossary any more than other terms that are defined in the dictionary need to be.

Clucky: he/him

12-08-2008 15:55:01 UTC

The reason for removing it isn’t just because its not defined. Its that I personally like Spivak and think its stupid to allow admins to remove it. If you are going to do that, you should have a required set of pronouns for use.

Yoda:

12-08-2008 18:48:05 UTC

Then if you’re going to remove the phrase, add something to the glossary so there is not ambiguity as to whether you can use them or not.

Also, as for the second part: It might be better worded as “the Ascension Address that follows” instead of “that DoV’s Ascension Address”, but the phrase should not be taken out completely.

Amnistar: he/him

12-08-2008 19:41:17 UTC

Aside from which, if someone leaves, it’s a simple CfJ to deal with it, I’d rather the CfJ be used in this issue than have the rules allow someone to freeze the game.

Clucky: he/him

12-08-2008 20:00:36 UTC

But anyone can freeze the game. We could double the ruleset preventing jerks from abusing it. I’d rather keep it as simple as possible and trust the members to be respectful of the ruleset.

Yoda—why wouldn’t we be able to use it? The ruleset doesn’t enumerate everything we can do. Its not like the ruleset says “Here is the dictionary of words you are allowed to post”.

Devenger:

12-08-2008 21:48:26 UTC

against

Darknight: he/him

12-08-2008 22:22:25 UTC

against

Thrawn:

13-08-2008 06:36:03 UTC

imperial

Thrawn:

14-08-2008 05:56:10 UTC

COV
for