Tuesday, January 27, 2009

The Ukee Brothers

Wakukee and Qwazukee are sharing a computer and accidentally casting the other person’s vote after not logging out, sometimes - I don’t think anyone’s said anything, but we should really be counting the wrongly-cast votes as if the named person had cast them. Otherwise they could just invalidate any of the other person’s votes by saying “sorry, that last comment was actually me, ignore it”, and we get into the hazily deniable world of “wait, I didn’t really make that unfortunate DICE roll, my workmate was joking around on my machine!”. We are our BlogNomic avatars.

Does that seem reasonable?

Comments

Wakukee:

27-01-2009 21:54:53 UTC

We try to cover our votes by re-posting what we actuallh meant to vote, but if we did not post our roper vote, then it would be reasonable to count the first vote as if the other had posted it.

Darknight: he/him

27-01-2009 21:57:16 UTC

Seems fair enough. Since theres no real way to know whos who out of the two. In any case if one votes under the others name theres always CoVs but until then the vote counts for that name

Wakukee:

27-01-2009 22:06:18 UTC

I agree. But I am willing to propose that every time someonevotes under the wrong account, the person who used the wrong account loses 1 guess if people are really annoyed by this.

Darknight: he/him

27-01-2009 22:18:20 UTC

Your willing to do that Wak? I do belive you and your bro are the only ones sharing a comp to log on to the nomic so such a plan only effects you two

Kevan: he/him

27-01-2009 22:25:41 UTC

I don’t think anyone’s annoyed by it, it’d just be useful to agree where we should stand on it, before it becomes a quorum-breaking issue.

(And it seems enough of a punishment that if you forget to log out, the other player might accidentally change your vote to theirs.)

Wakukee:

27-01-2009 22:32:13 UTC

Ok.

Qwazukee:

27-01-2009 22:56:28 UTC

I’ve always assumed that votes cast under my name counted for me, even if Wakukee posted saying it was a mistake. Usually it doesn’t make a difference, and I doubt it’s that big of an issue.

Yoda:

27-01-2009 22:59:11 UTC

Wak: If you put something like that into the ruleset, it could easily be abused.  You could post a vote and then a few minutes later post a comment saying your brother posted the previous comment.  Since there’s no way to verify that he didn’t actually do it, he would have to forfeit a guess or we would have to settle it with a CfJ regarding whether guilty until proven innocent or innocent until proven guilty.  Either way, though, is abusable as it is not verifiable.

In other words, things would just turn messy very quickly.