Sunday, April 07, 2024

Proposal: The Table’s Edge [Building Blocks]

Reached quorum 4 votes to 0. Enacted by Kevan.

Adminned at 09 Apr 2024 08:24:58 UTC

In the “No Cooperation” Building Block (both on the Building Blocks wiki page and in the ruleset), if it exists, replace “except through the use of co-operative mechanisms defined in the Dynastic rules” with:-

except through the use of co-operative mechanisms defined in the Dynastic rules, and the posting of votable matters and casting of votes

Making a clear call that do-over CfJs, DoV support, chop proposals, etc. are all outside of the scope of No Cooperation.

Comments

Clucky: he/him

07-04-2024 19:06:52 UTC

I feel like this still leaves a lot of broken scenarios with the rule

is pointing out that someone made a mistake so they can fix it “cooperation”?

Is taking a snap in an area you know another player might be able to also take a snap in “cooperation”?

I’d rather we explicitly define what is allowed rather than leave it so unknown

Kevan: City he/him

07-04-2024 19:15:37 UTC

This is a proposal to explicitly define “the posting of votable matters and casting of votes” as being allowed.

Clucky: he/him

07-04-2024 19:20:19 UTC

right. But there are still a bunch of other scenarios that are unclear.

Which to me signals the blanket “no cooperation” leaves too much confusion. We need to explicitly define what we mean by cooperation.

JonathanDark: he/him

07-04-2024 20:12:20 UTC

To me, the difference between this Proposal and Clucky’s is that, with Clucky’s it repealed No Cooperation and then added explicit prohibitions, meaning that if we missed something then there’s no room for debate.

With this Proposal, we start with “do not co-operate”, whatever we think that means, and then add explicit exceptions to that. We are also free to add explicit examples as they come up for debate, but the point is that there has to be groundwork for that debate, i.e. the fact that a “no co-operation” rule exists in the first place.

JonathanDark: he/him

07-04-2024 20:14:37 UTC

So if there are explicit callouts needed for “what is co-operation” we can add those over time. I would support such additions to the existing rule rather than replacing it.

Clucky: he/him

07-04-2024 21:14:18 UTC

But isn’t it better to have the debate now?

Right now, it seems highly likely people are playing under two different understandings of the rules. This means the dynasty is likely to end with either someone feeling “I thought doing X wasn’t legal so I didn’t do it, but turns out it was” or “I thought doing X was legal so I did do it, but turns out it wasn’t”—both of those are end games I think we should do whatever possible to avoid

Clucky: he/him

07-04-2024 22:09:37 UTC

against

as its unnecessary (voting on CfJs and proposals is not actually a form of collaboration), and if anything would make BAMPAM or other “help out me and my friends” scenarios which should violate no collaborations suddenly legal

Josh: he/they

07-04-2024 22:10:32 UTC

for

NadNavillus: he/him

08-04-2024 00:19:50 UTC

for

JonathanDark: he/him

08-04-2024 00:32:40 UTC

for