Reached quorum 4 votes to 0. Enacted by Kevan.
Adminned at 08 Jul 2025 13:27:50 UTC
In “Scoring”, add a new bullet point after the first in the “may make a Scoring on a Backronym as long as all of the following are true” list:-
* No Backronym has been Closed since the most recent Acrogenerate action (if the Acrotype is Secret)
Before “Once a Backronym has been resolved”, add a new paragraph:-
If the Acronym is Secret, then an Open Backronym can only be resolved if every Open Backronym was either posted at least 48 hours ago, or has a Scoring posted to it from every active Wordsmith other than its author.
Removing the temptation for players to wait for early Secret Backronyms to resolve and have their author publicly identified, before using that information to cast (or change) a Score on a later one. This proposes that the Puzzler can’t start closing the Backronyms until all of them are closable, and that further Scores can’t be posted while he’s doing that.
Josh: he/they