BlogNomic: Sticky Bits

Sunday, February 26, 2006

Proposal: Sticky Bits

Vetoed… sorry. -Elias IX

Adminned at 27 Feb 2006 19:43:45 UTC

Add a new Law to the Ruleset:

No Swashbuckler shall make a post to the front page with the ‘sticky’ attribute set unless the content of the post pertains directly to game state information or administrative requests. Any Admin may remove the ‘sticky’ attribute from a post if it fails to meet either of these criteria.

Nothing prevents an admin from removing the sticky bit from any offending post (in eir discretion) as it is, as that data is not part of the game state, but I feel it better to codify these things than make ad hoc decisions. I think that sticky posts should be used sparingly, since each member of Blognomic must read past them, and certainly not used for intra-Nomic politics. ;)

Comments

Bucky:

26-02-2006 05:08:20 UTC

, but as a non-admin in an intra-Nomic power struggle, I’m a bit biased.

Angry Grasshopper:

26-02-2006 05:14:49 UTC

In the absence of rules to the contrary, I feel that the front page should be left out of it, one side or another.

On the other hand, if we want to run a Dynasty that uses the posts as part of the gamestate, so be it. ;)

Hix:

26-02-2006 05:36:13 UTC

Kevan: he/him

26-02-2006 11:04:32 UTC

Not convinced that this is important enough to merit a whole new Law. Strict rules on content are likely to end up more trouble than they’re worth, that this would make sticky “blognomic.com will be offline for 12 hours this weekend” alerts illegal.

(And “pertains directly to game state information” makes it meaningless, that you could just tack on a mention of The Lone Amigo’s parrot to make the stickiness legal.)