BlogNomic: Information is Important, Control of Information Moreso

Wednesday, February 18, 2009

Proposal: Information is Important, Control of Information Moreso

The relevant paperwork is sorted. Await the General’s decision as to who will inform you about why and how we should all Fight the Good Fight.

Reporting, Devenger.

(Timed out after 48 hours, passed 14-1. 11 (Quorum) Up Arrow icons, so Devenger gets to increase their AP by 1.)

Adminned at 20 Feb 2009 11:00:39 UTC

Informing the People has made this nation the great utopia it is today, where you can live safe knowing that citizens can do nothing… to remove you of your freedoms… without being found and punished. The good of spreading Important Information should also enter the ranks of the military, in order to make our Soldiers better informed individuals who can perform their duty to the best of their ability, and beyond. I see that some of those around me are not always as Loyal as they could be; I believe that must just be a lack of information telling them about the great progress being made but our economy and our other, less well-known military operations. We shall be Victorious, with the Truth on our side!

Add the following text to Rule 2.8 Positions:

* Propaganda Officer: The General may, as a daily action, remove the Propaganda Officer position from all Soldiers that have it as their Position, and set the Position of another Soldier to Propaganda Officer. The Propaganda Officer may make Important Information posts as described in the sub-rule ‘Important Information Posts’.

Create a sub-rule ‘Important Information Posts’ to Rule 2.8 Positions with the following text:

An Important Information post is a Story Post with [Important Information] in its title. Only the Propaganda Officer may make an Important Information post, and only as a weekly action. An Important Information post shall attempt to persuade Soldiers about the greatness of their Nation, the Party, the General and High Command’s ingenuity.

Within 48 hours of the Important Information post being posted, Soldiers may post one comment to the Important Information Post containing a Voting Icon. The Soldier’s Opinion is the Voting Icon they use. If a Soldier uses more than one Voting Icon in comments on an Important Information post, their Opinion is the last voting icon they use. If a Soldier’s Opinion is FOR, that Soldier shall increase their Loyalty by 5. If a Soldier’s opinion is AGAINST, that Soldier shall decrease their Loyalty by 5.

After 48 hours and within 72 hours of the Important Information post being posted, the Soldier who made the Important Information post shall increase their Loyalty by the number of FOR Opinions their post received, and leave a comment to the post containing ‘Your feedback was welcome’. If after 72 hours of the Important Information post being posted this comment has not been made, the Soldier who made the Important Information post shall decrease their Loyalty by 10, and remove their Position if it is Propaganda Officer.

If half of all counted votes on this Proposal contain the phrase ‘Let the idiot sing’, Devenger’s Position becomes Propaganda Officer.

There’s so much good news to spread!

Comments

ais523:

18-02-2009 13:39:35 UTC

It is important that the military remains properly informed.

Gnauga:

18-02-2009 13:49:21 UTC

Because SPARTAAAAAAAAAAA

Wooble:

18-02-2009 15:47:16 UTC

Rodlen:

18-02-2009 15:54:06 UTC

Amnistar: he/him

18-02-2009 16:46:57 UTC

Klisz:

18-02-2009 16:56:12 UTC

SingularByte: he/him

18-02-2009 16:59:33 UTC

arthexis: he/him

18-02-2009 19:42:56 UTC

I want to be the Propaganda Officer, though.

Hix:

18-02-2009 20:48:37 UTC

Because I do not want Devenger to be Propaganda Officer. To get my vote, it is usually necessary that I find all possible outcomes of a Proposal to be better than the status quo.

Devenger:

18-02-2009 21:18:49 UTC

Okay Hix. Considering this proposal is likely to pass anyway, and no-one (including me) has voted for the sub-concept (which I only put in to judge whether people liked what I’ve tried to achieve with flavour text; the very nature of the ‘weekly post, daily change’ structure means lots of people COULD get a go, depending how Amni plays it), all you’re doing is potentially slowing the game down if this gets to the top of the queue with 10 FOR votes, quorum 11.

Maybe I’ll start being rude or full of myself in your Proposals too.

Wakukee:

18-02-2009 21:33:56 UTC

Hix:

18-02-2009 21:56:07 UTC

I wouldn’t say that that’s _all_ I’m doing; I’m also voicing my opinion. Perhaps some of those who have yet to vote will agree with me. Since this Proposal was about 41 hours away from timing out when I voted (and there were 7 Proposals ahead of it in the queue), there’s also a significant chance that I will have persuaded some voters to CoV before then. Note that I merely said that I _usually_ vote based on the assumption that my least preferred outcome will be enacted. When I swoop in and vote at the last minute, it’s usually obvious which mode will be enacted, and I don’t bother considering the extremely unlikely ones. Concerning this Proposal: it’s a long shot, but I consider it possible that if I voted for this proposal, it might end up being enacted in the mode that I don’t want to happen, before I get a chance to change my vote (I might be away from my computer all day tomorrow).

As for “slowing the game down”, I feel only mild regret that my action (well, not my action so much as my failure to vote FOR) may do so. A 48-hour timeout is quite fast enough a pace for a nomic. Running through the queue faster when there is a consensus is a bonus; while I sometimes will change my vote to help clear the queue faster, I do not _need_ to do so.

Qwazukee:

18-02-2009 22:18:23 UTC

Hix, I understand your point of view, but I think it would be safe not to vote on this proposal, even if for some reason you cannot stand the thought of Devenger propaganda.