Saturday, June 21, 2025

Proposal: It Takes Many Types

Reached quorum 6 votes to 0. Enacted by Kevan.

Adminned at 23 Jun 2025 11:15:58 UTC

Repeal the rule “Acroname”.

In the rule “Acronym”, replace the text “three to seven alphabetical letters” with “three to thirty alphabetical letters”.

In the same rule, insert the following as the second paragraph:

There is a publicly tracked Acrotype, which is one of the types listed in the table below, defaulting to “Letters”:

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Acrotype !! Steps
|-
| Letters ||
* Publicly randomly choose a Size, which is a number from 3-7 inclusive.
* Select that Size amount of alphabetical letters by publicly randomly selecting each one using the DICE roll and table described on the [[Starting Letter Frequency]] wiki page.
* Set the Acronym to the selected alphabetical letters in the order in which they were selected.
|-
| Words ||
* Set the Acronym to a publicly randomly selected word from the [[EFF Wordlist]]
|-
| Names ||
* Create a set containing the names of all active Wordsmiths.
* In that set, remove the name of the Wordsmith selected in the most Acrogenerate action performed with an Acrotype of "Names", if there was such an action.
* Publicly randomly select a Wordsmith's name from that set.
* Set the Acronym to that Wordsmith’s name, with any characters other than alphabetical letters removed.
|}

In the same rule, replace the bulleted list of steps after the text “Acrogenerate is an atomic action with the following steps:” with the following:

* Perform the Steps listed in the table that are associated with the current Acrotype, in the order in which they are listed for that Acrotype.
* Make a Story Post with a title that starts with the text “New Acronym: ” followed by the value of Acronym.

If “Hot Topics” was enacted, insert the following bullet point just before the last bullet point for the steps for Acrogenerate:

* Set the Prompt to any text

Consolidating DoomedIdeas’ proposal into types of Acronyms, so that the overall actions to generate, play, and score remain the same for any type. How to change the type is for another Proposal.

Comments

JonathanDark: Puzzler he/him

21-06-2025 12:27:54 UTC

As with my other proposal today, I’m attempting to refine and tidy others’ ideas, but I’m not at all insistent on this if folks would rather have multiple acronym types going at the same time, such as Acronym and Acroname in parallel.

Kevan: he/him

21-06-2025 15:39:56 UTC

imperial Sequential seems better than parallel, if each challenge will probably generate eight blog posts that day.

DoomedIdeas: he/him

21-06-2025 17:02:11 UTC

for Sequential seems good to me, per Kevan.

Darknight: he/him

21-06-2025 20:59:33 UTC

for

Raven1207: he/they

22-06-2025 15:13:14 UTC

for

Trapdoorspyder: he/him

23-06-2025 04:16:09 UTC

for

Josh: he/they

23-06-2025 11:19:07 UTC

for