I’m not sure why you need to snipe the criteria of other players. From what I understand, you’re already going to try to take a shot that scores optimally on your own Private Criteria based on your current Satisfying/Unsatisfying count.

Because it’s fun, and isolated solitaires is less fun

Also not seeing a need. I think there’s already enough interesting tension in balancing your own Criteria against those of others, when taking your own photos - as well as avoiding being too obvious about what your own Criteria might be.

The editing rules seem pretty good. I’d also be fine with a ban on editing. I’m still curious what Naught had in mind when they said that they wanted to “try their hand” at editing, when proposing the rule.

I agree that the editing rules are good and should be proposed on their own.

At the moment the game is just cranking the handle - hey a photo out every five days, comment on everyone else’s photo, all very modern Instagram. If you lot find that satisfying then I won’t stop you but it seems to me like the decision space is a little flat right now, and the interaction space is completely absent.

I think the problem with “The use of AI tools to modify a picture is prohibited.” is that while the motivation is good, a lot of cameras already use AI to automatically edit pictures after taking them to make them look good. Need to clarify that automated stuff like that is okay, just not post processing.

Josh, if you want more interactivity, change the Scoring to be more like bidding, where Seekers start with higher Satisfying and Unsatisfying Counts, and then they bid on each photo using the Private Criteria that the photo meets. Highest bidder in each category of Satisfying and Unsatisfying spends the corresponding count and scores on it.

You could do that too!

I’ll give it some thought, but if you have a fleshed out mechanic then go for it :)