Monday, December 11, 2017

Proposal: Initial mechanics

Reached quorum 4 votes to 0. Enacted by Kevan.

Adminned at 12 Dec 2017 11:43:54 UTC

Create a wiki page named “Failed Experiments”

Make a new rule “Hunger” containing the following text:

Failed Experiments have a Hunger level, tracked in the GNDT, that defaults to 0.

Make a new rule “Discretion” containing the following text:

Failed Experiments have a Discretion level, tracked in the GNDT, that defaults to 100.

Certain actions have a required discretion level. To perform the action, the Failed Experiment’s group must have a discretion level equal to or higher than the required discretion level of the action.

Make a new rule “Groups” containing the following text:

Failed Experiments are part of a group. Each group is listed in the “Failed Experiments” wiki page under a section named “Groups”, with one line per group, containing the names of the group’s members. If a Failed Experiment has not yet grouped with another Failed Experiment, they form a one-member group.

A Failed Experiment may change groups by posting a Story Post with the [Group] tag and specifying which group they want to join. Members of the target group can refuse the request by posting a comment containing the AGAINST icon. If after two days the number of group members voting against is less than half the size of the group (not rounded) then the Failed Experiment who published the post is added to the group and removed from their previous group.

If an action has a Group Effect, the effect is applied to all members of the group that the performing Failed Experiment belongs to.

Each group has a Discretion level, equal to the lowest discretion level of the members of the group.

Comments

pokes:

12-12-2017 00:48:37 UTC

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pokes:

12-12-2017 01:26:27 UTC

Is Discretion meant to be interpreted more like stealth (in the sense of being discrete) or more like the ability to control yourself (when I first skimmed this, I imagined something like low discretion meaning that an Experiment is no longer to stop itself from doing maniacal things to sate its hunger) ?

Diabecko:

12-12-2017 06:40:16 UTC

Discretion is intended to represent how easily a group attracts attention from people, and low discretion should prevent a group from doing things that put them at risk from being reported (i.e. sleeping at hotels, entering a store, taking public transport etc.). If someone finds a better use of the value we can rename it.

Diabecko:

12-12-2017 06:44:30 UTC

(seeing a doctor for example would require very high discretion)

Madrid:

12-12-2017 07:38:54 UTC

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Diabecko:

12-12-2017 08:43:16 UTC

I tried to find the best word to signify “not attracting attention” but I’m not sure discretion is the best.

Kevan: he/him

12-12-2017 09:01:43 UTC

for Maybe flip it round and make it Visibility or Conspicuousness or something?