Tuesday, July 15, 2025

Proposal: Refavouring

Reached quorum 6 votes to 0. Enacted by Kevan.

Adminned at 16 Jul 2025 10:56:14 UTC

Apply the ruleset and gamestate changes proposed by More Feared, More Favoured, then replace “If a Wordsmith’s Favorites include any words which are not Favorable” with:-

If a Wordsmith’s Favorites include any words which match a word in the Word Bank, or which match a Filler Word,

Apply the ruleset changes proposed in Axiom Regarding Intelligent Artifice.

Reapplying a proposal I withdrew just now because it still had a bug in it (it would have requested the reset of Favorites that matched active Acronym letters), and we may as well put the AI paragraph in (which was quorate a couple of days ago but I withdrew it because I needed the slot back).

Comments

JonathanDark: Puzzler he/him

15-07-2025 12:25:23 UTC

for

Josh: he/they

15-07-2025 12:43:58 UTC

I’m truly losing track of the discussion through all the previous posts and iterations on this proposal. I think I didn’t like Fear of Favour, but I can’t remember why, or whether I was just annoyed at it attempting to reclaim favour spots so soon after I got knocked around for proposing the same thing on Tittle Title.

Probably safest to do a soft abstain on this one, although I’ll honestly shift to against if anyone has even a vague complaint.  imperial

Kevan: he/him

15-07-2025 12:56:42 UTC

I’d very nearly given up myself, a second reproposal is usually a sign to stop. I’d just kick myself hard if it turned out that someone had already locked down a Filler Favorite (just one that happened not to come up last round), and they scored five or six points from it in the future.

JonathanDark: Puzzler he/him

15-07-2025 14:17:58 UTC

The only reason More Feared More Favoured failed was Kevan’s own withdrawal due to a wording mistake. It had several votes in favor at the time.

Bucky:

15-07-2025 19:12:19 UTC

Scoring a Favorite removes it from the Favorites list.

Trapdoorspyder: he/him

16-07-2025 05:44:39 UTC

for

Chiiika: she/her

16-07-2025 06:20:28 UTC

for

Kevan: he/him

16-07-2025 07:36:57 UTC

[Bucky] Reflecting further, a player with a Filler Favorite could potentially score a dozen or more points by asking someone to post a Backronym that contained the same Filler Word as many times as they could fit it in the title field.

Darknight: he/him

16-07-2025 10:00:07 UTC

for