Wednesday, November 14, 2018

Proposal: The final field

Self-killed. Failed by Kevan.

Adminned at 15 Nov 2018 18:37:19 UTC

Enact a new rule entitled “Story Submission” with the text:

Any player can submit a Prospective Cover Story (PCS) by posting an entry in the “Story Post—Votable Matter” category with the text “[PCS]” in the title. When a PCS is Enacted, the “Cover Story” field in the rule “The Plan” is modified to the body of that post.

An admit can fail any PCS if the player who submitted it has submitted another one more recently.

Amend the rule “The Big Day” by:

  1. adding a paragraph after the paragraph beginning “If no Activist has Raised the Banner” containing the following text:
    If no Admin has Chosen a Cover Story, any Admin can do so by first failing each Prospective Cover Story, if the player who submitted it has submitted another one more recently; then creating a blog post containing the list of Prospective Cover Stories and the (number of votes for, after evaluating Deferentials * number of votes against, after evaluating Deferentials); then selecting the PCS with the highest such value and Enacting it. If multiple such PCSes exist, the one to be Enacted is the one submitted earlier
  2. adding a new item to the list after the final one with the following text:
    +3 if the Cover Story field of The Plan was set by a Prospective Cover Story they submitted.

It’s a creative writing contest!

I’m sorry if this is lame, but we have to have a way to fill out the Cover Story field.

Comments

Kevan: he/him

14-11-2018 09:57:56 UTC

You’re multiplying the number of FOR and AGAINST votes?

Trigon:

14-11-2018 13:31:19 UTC

That was definitely the wrong operator. I think I meant subtract against from for.

Kevan: he/him

14-11-2018 14:23:33 UTC

Afraid you’re outside of the two hour window for that proposal edit now (“An official post may be altered by its author if it is less than two hours old…”), the asterisk will have to stand.

Kevan: he/him

14-11-2018 15:57:09 UTC

I’ve gone ahead and reverted the proposal to its previous wording.

against given the mistake, and also some other issues: failing a PCS doesn’t actually make any difference (it can still be enacted), and putting “the body of that post” into the ruleset discourages the kind of creative writing you seem to be suggesting here.

If the process is just proposal-style voting, it might be easier to say ”+3 for having authored an enacted proposal which set the Plan’s Cover Story to its current value” and let us proposal it out.

Trigon:

14-11-2018 18:23:21 UTC

against self-kill

I clearly haven’t read the core rules in a while. I’ll resubmit this when I get home.