Tuesday, June 03, 2025

Proposal: Provocateurish

Reached quorum 6 votes to 2 with an IMP DEF. Enacted by Kevan.

Adminned at 04 Jun 2025 09:48:50 UTC

Add the Building Block rule “No Private Communication”.

Create a new dynastic rule named “One Blog For All” with the following body:

For the purposes of the rule “No Private Communication”, discussions conducted on the BlogNomic Discord server are considered to be private communications, even if the rule says they aren’t.

If nobody has done so within the last 48 hours, the Capital or any City should make a new blog post titled “Discussion Thread: {year}-{month}-{day}”, where {year}, {month} and {day} are replaced with the current year, month and day respectively. Cities are encouraged to conduct all discussions related to dynastic gameplay in these Discussion Threads.

Comments

Josh: Capital he/they

03-06-2025 09:54:34 UTC

As a matter of policy I’m going to go imperial on this but I think it’s a really interesting design space and if this passes I can think of a bunch of ways we’d want to use it.

ais523:

03-06-2025 10:06:49 UTC

for

Kevan: he/him

03-06-2025 12:03:57 UTC

for

DoomedIdeas: he/him

03-06-2025 12:55:31 UTC

for This seems really interesting, and I’m excited to use it!

JonathanDark: he/him

03-06-2025 13:11:17 UTC

for

Darknight: he/him

03-06-2025 13:53:50 UTC

for

Clucky: he/him

03-06-2025 17:17:46 UTC

against

not being able to discuss things on the discord seems pointless to me. its much easier to chat about things there than on the blog itself which can be notoriously slow

Trapdoorspyder: he/him

03-06-2025 18:00:33 UTC

against At this point it’s clear that this will pass, but I do happen to agree with Clucky on this one

lendunistus: he/him

03-06-2025 18:01:52 UTC

@Clucky I’m aware that banning Discord comes with a noticeable loss in convenience, but I’m fairly interested in seeing what the game would look like when everything is mobed to the blog

(provision’s also there to account for Ais)

Clucky: he/him

03-06-2025 18:07:10 UTC

not sure why the rest of us should be forced to accommodate for choices of other players who could easily join the discord

Clucky: he/him

03-06-2025 18:11:06 UTC

(I’m also unconvinced this even works.

“the #current-dynasty, #blognomic-general and #new-player-questions-and-mentorships Discord channels, are not considered to be private communication” is more limited in scope to “discussions conducted on the BlogNomic Discord server are considered to be private communications”, and thus I believe they would still not be considered to be private communications

lendunistus: he/him

03-06-2025 18:11:50 UTC

I’m not opposed to loosening the restriction later (e.g. cooperation deals can only be made on the blog) but for now, I’d like to try this out