BlogNomic: The First Dynasty of Desertfrog

since it doesn’t include the buffer period around rollover.

coppro, the period doesn’t exist because the entire community can stop timing scams if anyone can perform the action.

@coppro: Not only do I think the buffer period is a bad idea (it just increases the number of critical points for timing scams, not eliminates them), but for a communal action, it makes no sense. The actions are likely to happen towards the start of a week because anyone can perform them; there’s no way to engineer one to happen until just before the deadline unless you’re the only person who’s paying attention.

per ais523

I agree about the buffer stuff. Its still possibly a problem, so why not include the buffer?

per ais523’s “for a communal action, it makes no sense”.

@Clucky: If a timing scam isn’t bad, no need for a buffer. If a timing scam is bad, any single player in the game can prevent it. So a buffer would be more confusing than useful.

per ais523.

[ais523] Isn’t that also an argument in favour of a 24-hour buffer? If a Communal Weekly Action is ever ungrindy enough to involve a cost, then people will be shoegazingly reluctant to step up and take it pre-emptively, just to stop someone from taking it twice at rollover. Having a 24-hour buffer would give players a day to react with a block if someone took the action at 23:59 on Sunday.