The trick was entirely valid

Not arguing it wasn’t valid, I just wanted to establish a quick consensus on whether a quorum would have voted to retroactively fix it, before I went any further with the Epilogue - given that the 3-day timer was ticking and posting the Epilogue would be giving away information which couldn’t be put back into the bottle afterwards. It seemed likely that somebody might propose a retroactive fix over the weekend, and the sooner that voting started on that issue the better.

But on reflection the Epilogue as read wouldn’t have been giving away anything very much (just confirming that Cuddlebeam wasn’t bluffing and that nobody else had tried the same trick), so I went ahead and posted it.

while I do agree it is valid, if Cuddlebeam isn’t going to be here to claim their victory I’d rather have someone else claim victory from what everyone else thought that the rule meant.

@card: Well, CB agreed (in private) to give me the Ascension Post, so I was hoping that they’ll at least post the DoV.

They idled out; still, I am more likely to win in a victory election like the one at the end of the last dynasty than by my Reckoning, so I vote against.

I think we only reach for victory elections when we’re at a genuine loss for any other way to select a winner - either because not enough actually happened in the dynasty, or because there are various plausible ways to score it and people would naturally vote selfishly on which measure to use.

This dynasty is rare for actually having a good winner selection method right there; the secretly-submitted Goals which still haven’t been revealed.

If you think you wouldn’t win on that count, though, and are hoping for Cuddlebeam to unidle in four days and pass the mantle - sure, this is all good Nomic.

Its an entirely valid trick, but unless he’s going to stick around and claim it, I say we figure out who we all thought was going to win.

see corona’s post