BlogNomic: The First Dynasty of Desertfrog

I think Yuri’s problem is that there’s no requirement for unidle players to be explicitly listed anywhere. That there is nothing inherently illegal in sneakily removing a player from the “active” list, as it’s not gamestate (it’s only an informal representation of gamestate).

idle because excalabur *couldn’t* post due to a technical problem, so e asked me to unidle in IRC.

  per yuri

This is still important to have because, otherwise, admins could technically make themselves unidle without telling anyone. Then, they could sneakily win at the last second (imagine someone doing this in the Final Challenge of the Reality TV final, it would have been disastrous).

CoV

Yes but that would make us all hate them. If someone did that, then I’d vote FOR a ban…

Because it has technical issues (as described).

We shouldn’t ban ppl for doing things that are legal, we should fix the loopholes in out Ruleset.

And technical problems that prevent posting until you are unidled seem rare; if it came up, we could easily pass a Proposal or CfJ to fix it.

I didn’t say I’d ban them. I said I’d VOTE to ban them. I’d not initiate the ban. Difference.

So wait for 2-4 days for the proposal or CfJ to *expire*, let alone pass? Nah. ‘sfine

I didn’t say *you*, I said *we*. The nomic shouldn’t get into the practice of banning people for following the rules.

And I think it’s worth waiting [probably less than a day, as I can’t see anyone voting against] to fix a bizarre and unlikely technical problem, in order to keep our Ruleset tight.

No proposal has reached Quorum in a long time

unidle vote

That just means that Quorum will keep getting smaller until Proposals ARE meeting it. . . .

CoV