Friday, March 15, 2024

Proposal: Patron of the Arts

Timed out 2 votes to 2. Failed by Kevan.

Adminned at 17 Mar 2024 17:46:50 UTC

Add a new rule named “Commissions” with the following text:

Each Seeker has a publicly-tracked Commission, defaulting to empty, and which can be either empty or a combination of a Commission Criteria, which is a phrase of 1 to 10 English words, and a non-negative integer contained in () brackets named the Commission Price. If it has been more than 48 hours since a Seeker has changed any part of their Commission, or if their Commission is empty, that Seeker may spend any positive amount of Score, up to the amount of Score that they have, to perform a Recommission, which is one of the following actions:
* That Seeker may change their Commission from empty to a Commission Criteria and Commission Price, where the Commission Price must be the same as the amount of Score they spent.
* That Seeker may change their existing Commission Criteria to a different Commission Criteria, where the Commission Price must be the same as the amount of Score they spent.
* That Seeker, if they have a non-empty Commission, may increase their Commission Price by the amount of Score they spent as long as they don’t change their Commission Criteria.

Additionally, if it has been more than 48 hours since a Seeker has changed any part of their Commission, they may set their Commission to empty.

In the rule “Scoring”, at the end of the rule add the following text:

Additionally, within 48 hours of such a Shot having been posted, the poster of that Shot may at most once respond to it with the comment that they are claiming a Commission. Such a claim must include the name of the Seeker whose Commission is being claimed, that Seeker’s Commission Criteria, and that Seeker’s Commission Price. If that Shot meets the Commission Criteria mentioned in this claim, and the Seeker who owns that Commission is not the same Seeker as the poster of that Shot, then the poster of that Shot may increase their Score by the Commission Price mentioned in this claim.

 

This allows a Seeker to incentivize other Seekers to include or exclude certain things in their photos. The Seekers who do so gain Score, and the Seeker who posted the Commission can use this to increase their Satisfying or Unsatisfying counts, which could pay off in better scoring in the long run for the Seeker who posted the Commission.

Comments

JonathanDark: he/him

17-03-2024 00:08:47 UTC

No feelings one way or the other on this idea?

Kevan: City he/him

17-03-2024 08:23:06 UTC

against Doesn’t really feel like a rule I’d want to use, and its unclear whether a straight points donation (“I commission a photo of Clucky’s breakfast for 30 Score”) would break the vaguely defined “No Cooperation” rule.

Josh: he/they

17-03-2024 08:58:49 UTC

for

Clucky: he/him

17-03-2024 16:57:39 UTC

against

The way stuff is written now, I worry that it could cause a lot of point inflation as several people can fulfil the same comission.

But if we patch that, it could run into issues where people feel like they need to rush to satisfy a comission before anyone else does