BlogNomic: Shock and Awe

Thursday, January 11, 2007

Proposal: Shock and Awe

self-killed
Failed by Hix

Adminned at 14 Jan 2007 12:36:20 UTC

Add a new rule called The Awe Factor, stating:

If an Olympian has an attribute whose value is greater than that of any other Olympian, e gains 1 popularity point. At the moment that this becomes untrue, e loses 1 popularity point. This could be true for a single Olympian of more than one attribute, and e would gain a popularity point for each applicable attribute.

The Olympian with the highest sum of all attributes gains 3 popularity points. If this ceases to be true, e loses the 3 popularity points.

Comments

ChinDoGu:

11-01-2007 23:29:36 UTC

It could be argued that this proposal allows infinite popularity for having the highest in any attribute… I’ll leave it to others to decide wether that is the case.

Doremi:

11-01-2007 23:35:43 UTC

I think it is pretty clear. The most a single olympian could get from this would be 7 popularity points, but this would be extremely unlikely. But if e had 10,10,10,10, for instance, and no one had more than 10 of any attribute, and no one had a total sum greater than 40, then e would gain a popularity point for each of the four attributes, and 3 for having the highest sum.

ChinDoGu:

11-01-2007 23:40:04 UTC

My concern is…

“If an Olympian has more of an attribute than any other Olympian, e gains 1 popularity point. “

Ill gain my one. Now, Ill gain my one, since this is still true. And again… etc

Doremi:

12-01-2007 00:12:56 UTC

Since no one has made a vote that would change the outcome for this proposal, I have edited it to remove ambiguity.

JoshuaGross:

12-01-2007 00:16:02 UTC

I didn’t see it before it was disambiguated. I’m fine with it now.

Elias IX:

12-01-2007 00:40:12 UTC

“Since no one has made a vote that would change the outcome for this proposal, I have edited it to remove ambiguity.”

Oh no! That’s illegal! How annoying.

Basically, any comments on an official proposal, whether or not they have votes, prevent the author from editing it.

Doremi:

12-01-2007 00:43:29 UTC

I don’t see this in the rules. Can you point this out for me?

ChinDoGu:

12-01-2007 00:48:11 UTC

If no Olympian has commented on it, an official post may be altered or removed by its author;

1.7

Doremi:

12-01-2007 00:51:13 UTC

Ah. Take two

spikebrennan:

12-01-2007 02:15:28 UTC

Clucky: he/him

12-01-2007 15:45:43 UTC

Yeah. According to these rules, any time this is true your popularity would jump as high as possible. Because the if clause would still be valid.

Hix:

12-01-2007 23:40:54 UTC