Friday, October 09, 2020

Proposal: Complete Summary

self killed—Clucky

Adminned at 11 Oct 2020 04:02:24 UTC

In the rule “Turns” after

and make a post to the blog summarising their Turn

add

by mentioning, in the order the actions were taken, each action they took, the result of any choices made as part of that action, and what effect (if any) that action had on the game state

Right now “summarising their Turn” is a bit poorly defined. Technically “I did stuff” could be a summary of the turn. Would be nice if turn summaries make it clear what happened

Comments

Josh: Observer he/they

09-10-2020 08:51:41 UTC

for

Kevan: he/him

09-10-2020 14:14:00 UTC

The problem with insisting on precision is that a small typo or oversight will make an otherwise valid action entirely illegal.

It also means that if someone messes up a turn and corrects one of the steps, the “blog post” step has to be taken again because the previous post is no longer valid.

against

derrick: he/him

09-10-2020 15:22:34 UTC

against
The most important decisions should be noted in the comments and history of the great sea anyways.

Clucky: he/him

09-10-2020 16:25:29 UTC

Ideally yes, but someone could just edit the great sea page with all their bulk changes.

typos are an interesting point. Can we include some phrase like “to the best of their knowledge” that makes it clear you really should do this, but if you make a typo its okay and doesn’t invalidate everything?

we could also try splitting making the summary post from the rest of the action. that way an error in the summary post doesn’t invalidate the action

Kevan: he/him

09-10-2020 17:02:25 UTC

If you like. We’re usually able to enforce these things by social pressure alone, though; if everyone was giving detailed rundowns and I just posted “eh, did some stuff”, I’d expect disapproval from the group and eventually a “Kevan alone has to list all moves in detail, everyone else is fine” rule if I kept doing it.

Raven1207: he/they

09-10-2020 19:37:59 UTC

for

Lulu: she/her

09-10-2020 23:41:12 UTC

against

Josh: Observer he/they

10-10-2020 08:34:30 UTC

COV per Kevan against

Clucky: he/him

11-10-2020 04:02:00 UTC

almost gonna time out so sking to further clear the queue against