Tuesday, July 08, 2025

Proposal: Pressure Release

In the rule “Scoring”, replace “a Scoring posted to it from every active Wordsmith other than it’s author” with “a Scoring posted to it from every active Playing Wordsmith other than it’s author” and replace “For each Wordsmith other than the Puzzler that did not post a Scoring” with “For each Playing Wordsmith other than the Puzzler that did not post a Scoring”

If a Wordsmith is Yielding, maybe we shouldn’t have to wait on them to post Scorings and penalize them for not Scoring other Wordsmiths’ Backronyms. Yes, they could just idle, but the point of Yielding over idling is the intention to continue playing, just not this particular Acronym round.

Comments

Josh: he/they

08-07-2025 13:23:14 UTC

against People should just go idle. It’s only for four days, that’s shorter than most of the Arcogenerate cycles. I’m annoyed at myself for having voted in favour of having the yielding status in the first place.

Trapdoorspyder: he/him

08-07-2025 15:36:55 UTC

against I’ve already voted anyways haha, and posting scores is cognitively a much lighter load than putting an acronym together

JonathanDark: Puzzler he/him

08-07-2025 16:12:32 UTC

Fair enough. Withdrawn.

against

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