Proposal: Smoke Screen
Reached quorum, 4-0. Enacted by JonathanDark.
Adminned at 16 Apr 2024 21:08:37 UTC
In the rule “Criteria”, replace the text “, by first posting the hash and the secret text in a blog entry and then changing the hash and resetting its satisfying and unsatisfying counts to zero in the game state tracking page.” with the following:
as an atomic action named Criteria Refresh with the following steps:
* Post the hash and the secret text of each Private Criteria being changed in a blog entry.
* For each Private Criteria being changed, update the hash and reset its satisfying and unsatisfying counts to zero.
In the rule “Guesses”, add the following text:
A Guess may not target a Seeker while that Seeker is performing the Criteria Refresh atomic action.
I’m taking Clucky’s advice in preventing the snipe of Guesses. This patches the Guess itself, not just the Award. I made refreshing criteria an Atomic Action so that a Seeker can’t also try to do other dynastic actions and just delay finishing their Criteria reset indefinitely.
I also avoided taking Kevan’s route of trying to describe how a Guess may be made. There’s a scam where if it were forbidden to make a Guess based on public conversation other than Authentic Shots, a Seeker could block all of their Private Criteria from being the target of a Guess simply by conversing about all of their criteria publicly.
Juniper.ohyegods: she/her
i’m going to say for because of the sniping part.