Thursday, January 15, 2009

Proposal: The Theme (Original Illegal Version)

Illegally edited -Darth

Adminned at 14 Jan 2009 22:21:16 UTC

Create a new rule “Theme”:

There exists a Dynastic Theme (also known as The Theme) which is a part of the Gamestate, but which may not be changed through Proposals or other Rules. The Theme is described by a single sentence which is only known to The Writer, and whose MD5 hash is “997e169d477054d6f23621e83e46e127”.

Create a new rule “Guessing”:

Each Staff member has a non-negative integer number of “Guesses” which are tracked by the GNDT. New Citizens start with 3 Guesses. As a daily action, a Staff member may “Take a Guess” by spending 1 Guess and making a Story Post whose subject starts with “[Guess]”. The post shall contain in it’s body a text that will be compared to the Theme by the Writer.

If the text to compare has exactly the same words as the Theme, disregarding punctuation, capitalization and exact order of the words, the Writer shall comment that the Guess was correct and the Staff member who took the Guess may achieve victory. If one of the words used in the Guess is a synonym of a word in the Theme, the two words shall be considered effectively the same.

In any other case, The Writer shall comment that the Guess is wrong and may include some reasons as to why it was wrong on the same comment.

Give 3 Guesses to each member of the Staff.

Yes, I know the guess is really hard at first. But I’d prefer if you’d also propose some way to making it easier for yourselves, like making me give you hints or something. Think of it as a more challenging Wheel of Fortune.

Comments

Klisz:

15-01-2009 05:34:52 UTC

against  Exactly the same words!?

Rodlen:

15-01-2009 05:36:32 UTC

against per the Cliche

Rodlen:

15-01-2009 05:50:48 UTC

Oh, and what happens if two staff members make the same correct guess?

Yoda:

15-01-2009 05:52:06 UTC

against for a different reason:

Proposals have to reference rules by title.  If you keep changing the title, how are proposals supposed to keep up?

Darknight: he/him

15-01-2009 05:56:19 UTC

against

arthexis: he/him

15-01-2009 06:07:47 UTC

Oh, I just didn’t notice the point Yoda is rising. I’m gonna exclude rule “Hints” for now.

@Rodlen and DC: It’s not that hard.  It’s just a few words and synonims may be used. If you don’t like the difficulty level, you can propose to change the Theme rule into something easier, but I’d prefer it to be hard at the start of the dynasty.

veto I’m writing a fix (PS. Can you change my veto icon?)

Klisz:

15-01-2009 06:14:53 UTC

Arth: Still, what if someone correctly guesses the theme but not the exact sentence structure?

Klisz:

15-01-2009 06:15:13 UTC

Arth: Still, what if someone correctly guesses the theme but not the exact sentence structure?