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“Viral Proposals can only be created by other Proposals”...

How does a Proposal make a Proposal?

@spikebrennan: by saying it does. That’s a gamestate change, isn’t it? (Presumably the admin who enacted it would have to make the corresponding blog post, to avoid utterly confusing everyone.)

Ah infinite proposals! Lol

Doesn’t work with the logic of the current ruleset. 
The idea could be more coherent if what you were doing was having a proposal that creates a non-player entity that is deemed to have made a particular proposal, but that doesn’t appear to be what you’re doing.

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@spikebrennan: Why doesn’t it work?

This also risks piling up thousands of proposals on the queue.

Bucky: to answer your question, Rule 1.3 (which you are intentionally proposing to throw off a cliff and break) contemplates not only that a Proposal is something that is submitted by a Player, but that it is submitted by posting an entry on the blog.  Once this is done, the blog’s programming does the voodoo that it do, and the proposal shows up on the queue, the rest of the Players can see that it’s in the queue and is therefore Pending and eligible to be voted upon, &c.

Since an intangible concept such as a Proposal or a Rule cannot post to the blog, your proposed mechanic creates the possibility that Proposals will be brought into existence, become Pending, and theoretically go into the queue _even though no Player is directly aware of their existence_ (because they weren’t “posted to the blog” and therefore don’t show up in the sidebar).

Proposals still have to be enacted in order, so before enacting _any_ Proposal, the admin would have to somehow make a determination of whether there are one or more non-Player-created “phantom” Proposals in the Queue, when they got there, and whether 48 hours have elapsed since they got there.

Mark my words, this is grey goo(*) that will eat the Ruleset.

(*) Science fiction trope.  Look it up.

Not sure I follow the reasoning there. A human player can submit a Viral proposal, it’s just “considered not to have an author” as soon as it starts existing (ie. after it’s been posted).

Framing it as “considered not to have an author” does sound a bit risky and I thought there might be a bigger problem where a rule talks about “the author of a proposal”, but I can’t actually see anything. (Rule 2.1 talks in terms of “a player is awarded ten points each time one of their proposals is enacted” rather than “each time a proposal passes its author is awarded ten points”, so would gloss over Virals.)

As I explained to Bucky in IRC, it’s my understanding that the mechanic that Bucky is trying to create is:

“A Rule may require a particular Player to post a Proposal (called a “Viral Proposal”) under certain circumstances, and that certain specified gamestate effects will occur if such Player fails to do so.  A Viral Proposal shall have [Viral] in its proposal title” and, blah blah blah, shall not be deemed to have an author for proposal limitation and queue priority purposes, blah blah blah. 

But his language doesn’t precisely do this.

The que is already growing quite quickly; this allows for far tomany slots, so long as rule theft continues.

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I change my vote for the betterment of the safety of this here BlogNomic.

Currently failing 7-5

I like it.

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