Tuesday, July 01, 2025

Proposal: Rest Undisturbed, Sweet Thane

Fewer than a quorum not voting AGAINST (2 FOR, 1 IMP DEF, 1 null DEF, 1 REV, 4 AGA). Failed by Kevan.

Adminned at 03 Jul 2025 15:55:20 UTC

Add a new dynastic rule to the ruleset, galled Generosity in Marking:

Each Wordsmith has a Generosity, which is a score between 1 and 5 and which is derived from their own Scorings on other players’ Backronyms. At any time, a Wordsmith’s Generosity is the mean average of the value of their most recent Scorings on the Backronyms posted by other Wordsmiths in response to the preceding two Acrogenerates, not including the most recent Acrogenerate if there are currently open Backronyms posted in response to it.

Any Wordsmith whose Generosity is in the lowest quarter of Generosity values of all Wordsmiths may neither achieve nor declare Victory.

Comments

JonathanDark: Puzzler he/him

01-07-2025 19:25:48 UTC

imperial

Kevan: he/him

01-07-2025 19:30:28 UTC

Who would be in this quarter right now?

Josh: he/they

01-07-2025 19:41:21 UTC

It’s all on my other laptop, but certainly Clucky, and possibly also you, me and Bucky as we are all tied for the same value.

Also: Sweet is in the word bank, god damnit.

Clucky: he/him

01-07-2025 19:41:40 UTC

for

Josh: he/they

01-07-2025 19:46:13 UTC

Ah, it’s Clucky (2.428571429) and Trap (2.357142857).

Clucky: he/him

01-07-2025 19:57:41 UTC

i’ve given like no ones how am I one of the lowest!

Bucky:

01-07-2025 20:01:25 UTC

against because the tiebreaker ambiguity is bad in its own right and additionally feels scammy if there’s some way to make it asymmetric.

Bucky:

01-07-2025 20:02:01 UTC

CoV arrow

Kevan: he/him

01-07-2025 20:54:08 UTC

against while Fault In Our Stars is in the air; if Rivals stays on the books, more players switching to it in Josh’s current apparent playstyle of “score 1 for my Rival and the same two other players as decoys every round, score 5 for everyone else” would be a great loss of nuance.

Trapdoorspyder: he/him

01-07-2025 23:53:44 UTC

against

Raven1207: he/they

02-07-2025 00:07:38 UTC

imperial

Darknight: he/him

02-07-2025 01:40:25 UTC

against

DoomedIdeas: he/him

02-07-2025 17:05:24 UTC

against

DoomedIdeas: he/him

02-07-2025 17:06:04 UTC

I like the idea, but as Kevan mentioned, Josh has already displayed how the new strategy would work, and I dislike it.