Not voting yet, but I am unidling myself; quorum rises to 4.

I see that the opening sentence of “Photos” is based on the same rule from Kevan XVIII, but reading it now makes it seem vulnerable to someone waiting until we’re well into the dynasty and announcing that taking and hosting are separate actions that invalidate all the etc etc etc. Maybe something like “Seekers may create Shots by hosting photos they took themselves via the image upload functionality of the BlogNomic wiki?”

Have updated as suggested.

Possible private criteria should probably be restricted to avoid things like “The photo doesn’t contain a hippopotamus, nor a crocodile, nor a beaver, nor a sloth, nor a dancing pink toaster”

Criteria should be positively-stated, if that’s an acceptable way to define it.

Even positive feels dangerous if people can just define whatever they want. “This photo contains the color blue” would be pretty easy to hit

Do we know how the word of the day site works? I know with Wordle, people figured out how to get the word list and inspect future words. Probably a good idea to make it clear such behavior violates fair play (though maybe need an exception if Aussie folks can see the new word of the day prior to 0:00:00 UTC)

Sounds like we need to narrow down Private Criteria as “describing a person, place, or object” with some other limit that prevents something as generic as “sky” but could include “clouds” or “stars”

I unidle for real

  I don’t know that we can write such a rule that isn’t overly restrictive. Is it necessary? Can we trust each other to not be knobheads?

naught: no.

@naught: scam wins are a large subset of wins here, and those are basically nothing *but* being knobheads :p