Tuesday, August 01, 2006

Proposal: Shiny Barnstars

Passed 6-1. Rough consensus is that the chip is the best icon; I’ll work up a template.—Kevan

Adminned at 03 Aug 2006 05:44:43 UTC

Repeal the Rule “Shiny”.

If Now who would do that? passed, remove the sentence “Shiny may not be awarded for the passage of a Local Proposal.” from the ruleset.

Any user that has Shiny is encouraged to instead note this on their profile page in the BlogNomic Wiki, along with the reason for gaining that Shiny, if they can remember it.

[ I don’t know how familiar people are with Wikipedia’s editing culture, but their barnstars seem similar to our Shiny, and I’m wondering it might be healthier for exceptional BlogNomic behaviour to be properly and informally annotated somewhere, rather than being tracked as just an uninformative, gamestate-alterable number.

I’ve made a mockup of three possible images on my wiki profile (and I’ll make a proper template if this passes); feel free to post better ideas in comments. ]

posted by Kevan at 01 Aug 2006 12:38:00 UTC Comments (10)

Comments

Thelonious: Idle

01-08-2006 13:05:33 UTC

for - I was about to propose this myself having seen your insightful comment that Shiny doesn’t actually do anything (any doesn’t seem to have done anything for quite some time).

As far as the icons go, I prefer the Chip, the Pawn is OK and I don’t like the Die.

Rodney: Idle

01-08-2006 14:53:00 UTC

for

Bucky: Idle

01-08-2006 15:42:59 UTC

against
One could make the same argument for
admin status.

As for the last time it did something, that was last dynasty.  The main reason it hasn’t been used this dynasty was due to the Time Crystals rule.

Thelonious: Idle

01-08-2006 16:07:29 UTC

Remind me then - what did Blessings do for you?

Kevan: he/himIdle

01-08-2006 16:12:21 UTC

All the old rulesets are archived. It was in the Fighting rule, you got a combat bonus if you had any Blessings.

Thelonious: Idle

01-08-2006 16:15:59 UTC

Oh OK.  I think on balance I’m still for this propsal though.

Hix: Idle

01-08-2006 18:35:36 UTC

for I prefer that chip, too.  I like how you can spin it to simulate a die roll.

Shadowclaw: Idle

02-08-2006 02:03:08 UTC

for

Saki: Idle

02-08-2006 04:06:38 UTC

for
I like the chip also, but I like the die better. The pawn I wouldn’t mind so much if I couldn’t see the pixelated edges.

TAE: Idle

02-08-2006 12:30:11 UTC

for