I get that “should once respond” encourages Seekers to respond once, but it also waters down the previous language by allowing more than one response since it isn’t “must”.

Maybe something more like “should respond, but may only respond once,”

I’m also not sure about how concerned we should be about the number of total Private Criteria we will have to track. Let’s see how many Seekers are truly going to participate after a week. I’m betting that attrition will take hold and it won’t be so many after all. I actually hope I’m wrong, and if so, let’s tackle it then once there are in fact filled-in Private Criteria hashes that people are actually Scoring on.

I dunno, even if there’s only three active players in the game that’s still 9 private criteria after this proposal and only three photos per interval to compare them against… We can always lift the cap again if necessary but it feels smarter to drop it now while we have the opportunity.

(insert yet another reference to my unpublished screed about “should"s here)

Well, the screed is actually about “must”, but “should” gets caught up in it a bit, too.

Also, as far as I can tell, scoring on someone else’s snaps is always optimal.

Not really seeing what the “should” change is giving us. Making it impolite to tactically or inactively decline the action doesn’t seem like it would affect either playing style.

Also not much liking the EVC request to reveal in advance which I think my strongest Private Criteria are, when this proposal might not pass.

So you’d prefer to work with large numbers of criteria? Or you’d prefer them to be removed at random?

I’d prefer to say which ones I’d discard after the group had agreed that we should discard some, than before.

Not really sure how I feel about the numbers. It doesn’t feel overwhelming to me right now. If everyone piled in with five each then it might, but even then we’d be more focused on the active and leading players.

if https://blognomic.com/archive/runaway_games_are_no_fun passes we can set it back to five again

2 and 4

I’m not finding the number of Private Criteria overwhelming just yet. Given that “Runaway Games Are No Fun” is likely to pass, let’s just keep it at the current amount, rather than reducing it, then adding it back again.