Thursday, July 03, 2025

Proposal: Keys for Extraordinary Variance Around Names

Fewer than a quorum not voting AGAINST. Failed by JonathanDark.

Adminned at 05 Jul 2025 00:03:52 UTC

Add a subrule to “Acronym” called “Nicknames” with the following text

Each Wordsmith may have a Nickname. Nicknames are publicly tracked strings that are between 3 and 10 letters long and consist only of alphabetical letters. If the only thing a proposal does is change the nickname of the wordsmith who is the author of that proposal, such a proposal does not count against that author’s limit of 2 pending proposals and may be enacted at any time provided it still has a quorum of FOR votes

Replace steps of the the “Names” Acrotype with the following

* For the purposes of the rest of these steps, if a Wordsmith has a Nickname their Name is considered to be their Nickname rather than their actual Name
* Create a set containing the names of all active Wordsmiths.
* In that set, remove the name of any Wordsmith selected in a Acrogenerate action performed with an Acrotype of “Names” this dynasty (unless this would remove all Wordsmiths, in which case skip this step)
* 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 and with it trimmed to only its first 10 letters if it would otherwise be more than 10 letters long

 

Turns out the blog has a limit of 100 words in a proposal title.

At 14 letters, “Trapdoorspyder” could easily run into problems where people can’t otherwise post a valid Backronym and are limited to using really short words. Would rather just use “TDS” or some other shorter name they want to pick.

Comments

JonathanDark: Puzzler he/him

03-07-2025 23:16:07 UTC

for

Trapdoorspyder: he/him

03-07-2025 23:25:02 UTC

against even with a 14 letter name like mine it still averages to just over 7 letters a word which feels like enough

Clucky: he/him

03-07-2025 23:36:19 UTC

Youd need 13 spaces. That leaves more like six letters per word, and can’t use any filler words. Plus If you go late in the round you’ll also be facing the issue that a bunch of other players have already used a ton of r/o/d words limiting your choices een more.

DoomedIdeas: he/him

04-07-2025 00:08:24 UTC

for

Kevan: he/him

04-07-2025 07:01:34 UTC

against This is gamestate and paperwork overkill when we could just write “use Doomed for DoomedIdeas and TDS for Trapdoorspyder” in the rule (and in the unlikely event of a new player joining with a long name, proposing to amend that rule).

Josh: he/they

04-07-2025 08:14:37 UTC

arrow Per Kevan.

Kevan: he/him

04-07-2025 09:26:25 UTC

arrow Oh, yes, the revise thing.

JonathanDark: Puzzler he/him

04-07-2025 11:17:53 UTC

I like Kevan’s idea, and it prevents someone from making a nickname that’s secretly more favorable to their Favorites.

CoV arrow

Bucky:

04-07-2025 17:07:07 UTC

for This solves the problem, even if it could solve it more simply.

Trapdoorspyder: he/him

04-07-2025 18:13:57 UTC

arrow CoV

Darknight: he/him

04-07-2025 19:33:41 UTC

arrow

Clucky: he/him

04-07-2025 20:19:37 UTC

@Kevan i thought about that but didn’t want to persume nicknames for DoomedIdeas or Trapdoorspyder, instead give them opportunity to pick it

Raven1207: he/they

05-07-2025 00:03:39 UTC

against