Thursday, June 15, 2023

Call for Judgment: The Human Error in Our Stars

Timed out and failed, 2-2. Josh

Adminned at 18 Jun 2023 09:02:02 UTC

Reword the rule “Mindjacking” to the following:

A Mindjacker may carry out a Mindjacking as an Existential Action. A Mindjacking is the act of making a post in the Story Post Category with the title Mindjacking: (x), where (x) is a flavour-text string of its author’s choice; the contents of the post should be “The stars of (y) will guide me.”, where (y) is a Star Sign. At their earliest opportunity, the Ascendant shall mark this Mindjacking with a FOR symbol if (x) is the Symbol Name of an Avatar with Star Sign (y) whose Home Tier is higher than the author’s Level and whose Occupancy Tier is not; otherwise they shall mark it with an AGAINST symbol.

A Mindjacker whose Mindjacking has been legally marked with a FOR symbol by the Ascendant then Ascends and the Avatar named in the Mindjacking is destroyed. Immediately after Ascending this way, the Mindjacker’s Suspicion is set to 3.

Once a Mindjacking has been legally marked with a FOR or AGAINST symbol from the Ascendant according to this rule, it cannot be marked with another symbol.

Destroy all Avatars whose Symbol Names have appeared in Mindjackings which were marked with a FOR symbol by the Ascendant.
Consider Bucky to have Ascended, then set his Suspicion to 3; then consider lemon to have Ascended, then set her Suspicion to 3.

how’s this? the combination of “shall” and two “legally"s should ensure that the Ascendant’s mistakes are inconsequential and reversible, and the avatar destruction clause has been fixed (i hope)!

Comments

JonathanDark: he/him

16-06-2023 02:15:46 UTC

That seems right, but Josh will have to weigh in to be sure.

Josh: he/they

16-06-2023 08:23:29 UTC

It’s okay. “Legally marked with a symbol” is a bit of a wobbly test, as this rule sets out conditions when I can mark a Mindjacking with any symbol but none where I can’t, and nothing in the ruleset prohibits me from marking anything that I like with a FOR symbol at any time - so marking a correct Mindjacking with an AGAINST symbol is still legal and so we still have the same problem.

Better would be to change “At their earliest opportunity, the Ascendant shall mark this Mindjacking with a FOR symbol…” to “At their earliest opportunity, the Ascendant shall Manifest this Mindjacking by marking it with a FOR symbol…” and then changing the last paragraph to “Once a Mindjacking has been correctly Manifested”. That would be airtight.

This is probably good enough for now.  for

Bucky:

16-06-2023 14:52:59 UTC

against as before

lemon: she/her

16-06-2023 22:00:17 UTC

@Bucky the issue you had before with TFITFIOS — the “ladder pull at the end” as you described it — isn’t here?

JonathanDark: he/him

17-06-2023 00:26:25 UTC

for

Josh: he/they

17-06-2023 09:41:30 UTC

“Consider x to have Ascended” is meaningless, btw, and will have no effect; and “set x’s Suspicion to 3” is scammable. If other Mindjackers want to make sure that these effects work as intended then they may wish to file their own CfJs.

lemon: she/her

17-06-2023 10:00:12 UTC

huh. i guess you’re right.

against

Josh: he/they

17-06-2023 10:10:09 UTC

hahaha

respect