Proposal: Part of the Precipitate
Times out and fails 0-3. -RaichuKFM
Adminned at 13 Apr 2014 08:52:35 UTC
In the rule “Idle Atoms”, replace “Admins may render themselves Idle at any time, but should make a post announcing it when they do so.” with:-
Admins may render themselves Idle at any time, but should make a comment announcing it when they do so.
A quorum of players once wanted admins to post an entire blog entry whenever they idled themselves. I think ringing a big bell for “player got bored or became too busy to play” is probably psychologically unhelpful, but here you go, consider this an announcement. I shall idle myself after posting this.
Comments
Josh: he/him
Didn’t this particular approach flounder last time on the ploy of one player (who I shall refrain from naming accusatorily) (it was Kevan) to hide all his idling and unidling comments of sorry posts from five years ago?
RaichuKFM: she/her
Kevan: he/him
[Josh] I suspect I just pointed out that a suggested “must post a comment” compromise could be undermined by admins posting these comments in obscure places, I don’t remember it ever enacting. But the current rule is just a “should”, just an “it would be nice if” - an admin wishing to remain silent can simply choose not to post!
[RaichuKFM] In my experience, somebody standing up loudly from a gaming table, mid-game - however politely they apologise - can be bad for morale. (I remember some unhelpful “well, this is a boring dynasty, wake me up for the next one, quorum drops to 6” posts from the old days.) I see no reason for the ruleset to explicitly encourage these departures to be as loud as possible. Sure, timeout idles aren’t great for morale either, but they need to be loud so that the idled player realises that it’s happened and doesn’t carry on voting.
It’s the same psychology of casino machines sounding bells and whistles when somebody hits the jackpot, but remaining quiet when they lose their last dollar. Drawing attention to failure and departure reduces the fun.
RaichuKFM: she/her
The point of making it loud is so that its informative; its a should because otherwise it could break quorum’s accuracy if someone messed up. This has already been fought over enough, honestly. And again, making it a post or comment would probably be best, rather than picking one or the other. So I guess I’ll propose that now.
pizzashark:
Larrytheturtle: