Wednesday, April 03, 2024

Proposal: Guessing Game

Withdrawn. Failed by JonathanDark.

Adminned at 04 Apr 2024 22:39:14 UTC

In the rule “Guesses” replace the entire text of that rule with the following text:

When posting an Authentic Shot, the Seeker authoring that post may optionally perform a Guess, which is an atomic action with the following steps:
* Reduce their Score by 3
* Privately track text that contains the full title, minus the text “Story Post: “, of that Authentic Shot post, the name of a Seeker other than the author of that Authentic Shot, and a number of Private Criteria that the named Authentic Shot will satisfy for the named Seeker. This is known as the Guess Contents.
* Add the text “Guess:” followed by the SHA256 hash of the Guess Contents from the preceding step to the body of that Authentic Shot. This is known as the Guess Hash.

If it has been at least 48 hours after an Authentic Shot has been posted, and that post contains a Guess Hash, the author of the post may reveal the Guess Contents associated with the Guess Hash of that post in a comment to that post. If the Guess Contents are valid and the named Seeker had responded to the named Authentic Shot with a number of satisfied Private Criteria that matches the number mentioned in the Guess Contents, this is considered a Successful Guess for the author of that post, and the author of that post may increase their Score by the Exposure of each Private Criteria that was satisfied in the named Authentic Shot for the named Seeker in the Guess Contents.

In the rule “Awards”, replace the text in the Standard for “Grand Prix in Advertising Photography” with the following text:

Have at least 1 Successful Guess

Something to replace the current Guess mechanics

Comments

Kevan: City he/him

03-04-2024 18:15:35 UTC

Not sure I like the downside to the Outstanding Composition Award. Under the current ruleset anyone can safely claim it just by running matches-everything Criteria over five Snaps (as Josh and Clucky have already done), at the cost of missing out on scoring anything for them. Under this Guessing rule, anyone who does that will also be handing out easy Guesses to their opponents.

Which in a vacuum is maybe an interesting timing challenge, but I don’t think we should flip an Award from “easy” to “interesting timing challenge” when two players have claimed it already and four haven’t.

Kevan: City he/him

03-04-2024 20:36:34 UTC

against

Josh: he/they

04-04-2024 08:58:40 UTC

Per Kevan.  against

NadNavillus: he/him

04-04-2024 11:36:04 UTC

against Same

JonathanDark: he/him

04-04-2024 22:38:37 UTC

against Withdrawn