Thursday, January 09, 2025

Proposal: Not Too Swift

If the Proposal “Swift Slitherers” did not pass, then this Proposal has no effect.

In the rule “Race 5”, replace “Whenever a Snail crosses the finish line they subtract their Track Record from their Plays” with “Whenever a Snail crosses the finish line for the first time in an Ongoing Race, they subtract their Track Record from their Plays”.

In the same rule, replace “At the time at which an Award Ceremony is carried out” with “When the Award Ceremony is carried out and the Race Number is 5, “.

In the rule “Plays”, replace “The number of Plays each Gastropod has made in the Ongoing Race is publicly tracked as a number” with “Each Gastropod has a publicly tracked number of Plays, which may be negative. A Gastropod’s Plays increases by one when they make a Play. When a rule refers to a number of Plays made by a Gastropod, it is referring to their value of this variable rather than the number of times that Gastropod made a Play.”

Clearing up a few potential issues as mentioned in the comments of Swift Slitherers. Also clarifying that the number of Plays is distinct from the number of actual Plays you made in comments to the Race, in case someone tries to argue that they won despite not actually having the lowest Plays number.

Comments

ais523:

09-01-2025 03:00:20 UTC

“for Race 5” isn’t totally clear in what it refers to; you probably want “if the Race Number is 5”.

Habanero:

09-01-2025 03:04:37 UTC

I think it is, per ‘A Race is a blog post in the story post category, titled “Race X”, where X is the current Race Number’. That seems pretty clear to me that the fifth Ongoing Race blog post is Race 5. I’ll change it anyways though, doesn’t take all that much effort

Josh: he/they

09-01-2025 08:42:32 UTC

for

JonathanDark: he/him

09-01-2025 19:01:54 UTC

for

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