BlogNomic: The First Dynasty of Desertfrog

Enact it immediately? Whose responsibility is it to do all this? The first Admin to see it?

As always, it is every Musician’s responsibility to help keep the game documents up to date (within eir power), and to keep track of situations when game documents do not exactly reflect the current Gamestate.  For example, if Thelonious were to make a post to the blog in the “Proposal” category right now, we would all have to keep track of the fact that a game document (i.e. the blog) is misrepresenting the Gamestate, since the post would not actually be a Proposal (Thelonious already has 2 Proposals Pending).  A few dynasties ago, we had movement points (tracked in the GNDT) automatically be reset every midnight.  So every day, from midnight until someone updated the GNDT, the Gamestate was being misreported in the GNDT.  But it’s no big deal, especially in a procedural nomic.  Half the challenge is supposed to be figuring out which moves are legal at all—sure, some Musicians will forget about the automatic changes, and act erroneously.  I can hardly wait!

Are those VETO votes, or just cool icons, since I’m not the Conductor?

Those are not votes, of course (and they’re nowhere near being counted votes).  Just like when the Conductor uses the deferential icon, or when a musician uses an icon in some unofficial post.

I guess the question is how can there ever be “exactly 7 counted VETO votes for Proposal X” like the third bullet point says?

Conductor veto plus 6 deferential is the only way I can think of in the current Ruleset.  Pretty rare, so I gave it a powerful effect.

ahhh!!! that is all

Fun.  OK, so if there are 7 counted VETO votes for a proposal, and I’m an admin, I can do the dice roll thing with the dynastic rules…

And 2/7 of them vanish..

And I notice there are still 7 counted VETO votes..

So 2/7 of the dynastic rules vanish..

Until there are no more dynastic rules.

(?)

Hey, by the way, could someone make me an admin?

(sorry, I’ve had a long day.. feeling a bit flippant.)

The recursion thing, plus a little too much “must” and “immediately”.

Actually, repeatedly repealing every rule is compulsory, because it “must” be done. I suppose it’ll stop as soon as the Lucky Number Seven rule kills itself, though.

Oh okay, I suppose you’re right.

(CoV)

The repealing will stop as soon as either “Definitions” or “Lucky Number Seven” is repealed.  If we don’t want it to recur, we could just make the third bullet point fail Proposal X, too.  Then there wouldn’t still be a Pending Proposal with 7 vetoes.

Perhaps tightening procedure would benefit from a look at the original nomic rules.  They seem pretty thorough.

... stop the music?

We’ve lost a lot of stuff in the Ruleset since I played last. It used to say that a VETOed Proposal immediately fails, at which point it’s no longer pending, so the “seven vetoes” could never happen.  But we’ve lost “Vetoed Proposals immediately fail” in some rewrites.