Tuesday, July 01, 2025

Proposal: Rewarding Uniform Suggestion Titles

Popular, 6-2 with 1 DEF and Puzzler voting FOR. Enacted by JonathanDark.

Adminned at 03 Jul 2025 15:52:49 UTC

Enact a new rule, positioned after “Backronym”, called “Proposalnym”:-

If a Proposal has a title (not including the “Proposal:” prefix) that would be a valid title for a Backronym made at the moment of its posting, then it is a Proposalnym.

As a Round Action, a Wordsmith who has posted a Proposalnym since the last time Acrogenerate was performed may claim 1 point.

Really, I’m surprised that we haven’t been doing this anyway.

posted by Kevan at 01 Jul 2025 17:02:00 UTC Comments (14)

Comments

JonathanDark: he/him

01-07-2025 17:09:45 UTC

Is “during the current Round” a sufficient description of a defined time period? If worded correctly, you might even be able to get rid of that part and just use the definition of a Round Action. Something like:

As a Round Action, a player may post a Proposalnym and claim 1 point.

JonathanDark: he/him

01-07-2025 17:10:18 UTC

And “player” should be Wordsmith

Kevan: Yard he/him

01-07-2025 17:15:05 UTC

Fixed, thanks. “Player” is always a valid synonym when we forget, though, per the very end of the ruleset.

Josh: he/they

01-07-2025 17:46:58 UTC

for I suppose I should start proposing more.

JonathanDark: he/him

01-07-2025 19:25:26 UTC

for

Clucky: he/him

01-07-2025 19:30:50 UTC

for

Bucky:

01-07-2025 19:44:47 UTC

against

DoomedIdeas: he/him

01-07-2025 20:32:48 UTC

for

Trapdoorspyder: he/him

01-07-2025 23:51:10 UTC

against

DeactivatedUser4498:

02-07-2025 00:06:49 UTC

for

Darknight: he/him

02-07-2025 01:39:45 UTC

imperial

Bucky:

02-07-2025 05:39:13 UTC

An already-apparent side effect of this is that it’s more difficult to pick specific proposals out of the sidebar at a glance.

Josh: he/they

02-07-2025 07:25:52 UTC

People are perhaps over-applying the theme - they only have to do it once per Round.

Kevan: Yard he/him

02-07-2025 08:30:50 UTC

Even with the two redundancies right now, maybe it is a bit much, if it keeps up; Proposalnyms are likely to all arrive in a batch near the start of each round. I’d support an amendment to move proposal backronyms into the flavour text.