Saturday, June 21, 2025

Proposal: Hot Topics

After the first paragraph of the rule “Acronym”, add another:-

There is a publicly tracked Prompt, which is a piece of flavour text. The Prompt defines what sort of phrases the Backronyms should be, such as “a slogan for a brand of soft drink” or “something a newscaster might say”.

If the Puzzler included the all-caps word CORPORATE in any comment on this proposal, replace “a slogan for a brand of soft drink” with “a new, high-tech company product”, and “something a newscaster might say” with “a workplace safety mnemonic”, in that rule.

To the Acrogenerate action, add a bullet point to the end:-

* Set the Prompt to any text

In “Scoring”, after “Wordsmiths are strongly encouraged to include the reasons why they chose the number that they did in their Scoring.”, add:-

A Scoring should reflect how much the commenter likes the Backronym, and how well they think it fits the Prompt (if the Prompt is not blank).

Requiring that each round of acronyms be on some topic called by the Puzzler. (I’m not sure whether that should be restricted to the “a new corporate team” narrative stuff of the Ascension address, or breezier jokes; the Puzzler is free to choose either, and wouldn’t be bound by the examples anyway.)

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JonathanDark: Puzzler he/him

21-06-2025 12:09:09 UTC

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