Monday, July 07, 2025

Proposal: Readily Recognising the Backronym Matters

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.

Comments

Josh: he/they

07-07-2025 16:47:35 UTC

against

Darknight: he/him

07-07-2025 17:41:12 UTC

for

JonathanDark: Puzzler he/him

07-07-2025 17:50:02 UTC

imperial

Clucky: he/him

07-07-2025 17:57:48 UTC

for

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