Tuesday, July 04, 2006

Proposal: Companions

Reaches Quorum (8-0)
Enacted by Hix
The GNDT won’t display the underscore in the name of Rodney’s Companion.

Adminned at 04 Jul 2006 15:21:28 UTC

Add a rule titled “Companions” with the following body.

Each Traveller may select a Companion, adding the name of eir Companion to the “Companion” column in the GNDT, provided that eir Companion entry was blank beforehand.  A Traveller may not choose a Companion with the same name as either a Traveller (active or otherwise) or the Companion of a Traveller (active or otherwise).

When this proposal is enacted, the enacting admin shall make a column in the GNDT titled “Companion”.  Further, for each Traveller that commented on this proposal with a sentence of the form…

My Companion is “name”.

...the enacting admin shall fill in the Companion for the Traveller as “name”, subject to the uniqueness rules above, with earlier comments taking precendence for Companion names.  Travellers whose comments select illegal names and Travellers who haven’t commented on this proposal shall have their Companion entries left blank.

posted by Thelonious at 04 Jul 2006 08:56:00 UTC Comments (14)

Comments

Thelonious: Idle

04-07-2006 09:24:43 UTC

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My Companion is “Rose”.

Hix: Idle

04-07-2006 09:31:51 UTC

for My Companion is Tengaar.  (of course!)  I don’t want quotes around her name, though.

Thelonious: Idle

04-07-2006 09:35:47 UTC

I couldn’t work out how to get the quotes right.  However, I’m sure that the enacting admin will exclude the quotes.

TAE: Idle

04-07-2006 12:21:12 UTC

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My Companion is “Romana”.  I also would prefer to avoid the quotes around her name.  Incedentally, I seem to have gotten removed from the GNDT during the last hiatus.  Can whoever admins this proposal put me back?

The Doctor: Idle

04-07-2006 12:32:57 UTC

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My Companion is “Space Monkey”

Thelonious: Idle

04-07-2006 13:12:02 UTC

TAE, you can put yourself back by updating your Shiny to 0.

Thelonious: Idle

04-07-2006 13:13:54 UTC

Hang on a minute - since when did we have a Traveller called “The Doctor”?  I haven’t seen any announcement of eir arrival nor do I see em in the list of active Travellers.

The Doctor: Idle

04-07-2006 13:20:29 UTC

The Doctor, is me Gabriel. And I am changing my companion to “K9”

Thelonious: Idle

04-07-2006 13:28:49 UTC

Gabriel - you can’t change your name without a proposal.  See the following from Rule 1.2.

“A Traveller may only change eir name as a result of a proposal approving the change.”

Also, your attempted change of Companion name doesn’t follow the correct form.  Even if it did, it might well be ruled invalid.  (Earlier names take precedence.  Once chosen, there’s currently no way within the rules to change it.)

Angry Grasshopper: Idle

04-07-2006 16:51:14 UTC

My Companion is “Blinky the Tyrannosaurus Rex”.

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Rodney: Idle

04-07-2006 18:49:58 UTC

for My Companinon is “O_O”.

Excalabur: Idle

04-07-2006 18:59:45 UTC

for My companion is Merlin.

And note that using the substitution scheme proposed above that actually works. . . .

Greth: Idle

04-07-2006 18:59:50 UTC

for My companion is “Robin”.

TAE: Idle

04-07-2006 19:30:33 UTC

Thanks Thelonious, fixed it.