Saturday, July 12, 2025

Call for Judgment: Tittle Title

Uphold that the most recently completed Arcogenerate was carried out legally. Add the following two words to the word bank Story, Post.

In the rule Backronym, remove the following text:

For the purposes of this rule, the title of a Backronym is the text that its author wrote and does not include autogenerated text by the blog software.

In the Other section of the Keywords rule in the Glossary, add the following entry in the appropriate alphabetically ordered place:

Title
The title of a post is never considered to include, for the purposes of any rule, any text that was automatically generated by the blog software as a result of the author putting it into the appropriate category.

Remove the words ‘Story’ and ‘Post’ from the Favorites of any Wordsmith who has them in their favourites.

A beautiful scam that so very, very nearly worked.

Comments

Kevan: he/him

12-07-2025 12:31:05 UTC

If the most recent Acrogenerate wasn’t legal, we should fix and uphold that. But I don’t think it’s urgent or related that any players who tried and failed to perform a particular scam related to it (possibly just you, if your flavour text is suggesting that you tried it?) should get two Favorite slots back.

It’d be fairer to give everyone the option to drop any two Favorites that they’re having second thoughts about. That should go to a standalone vote rather than being part of an urgent patch - but bear in mind it failed when Trapdoorspyder proposed it last week.

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The definition of “Title” here also needs to be more unified with the existing “Subject” keyword, which is trying to strip out prefixes in a different way - it will mean that a blog post’s Title can sometimes be different from its Subject.

Josh: he/they

12-07-2025 12:47:23 UTC

That is a wild vote

Josh: he/they

12-07-2025 12:52:13 UTC

For absolute avoidance of doubt, there is no advantage to me from this: I did set two favourite slots to Story and Post, but after the most recent arcogenerate, when it should have been illegal for me to do so because they should have been in the Word List. I am just fixing a loophole.

Kevan: he/him

12-07-2025 13:02:23 UTC

Thanks for clarifying, I wasn’t able to infer that from what you’d said in the CfJ.

Is the most recent Acrogenerate illegal right now, or is the CfJ’s uphold there to cover any problems in redefining Titles underneath it?

Josh: he/they

12-07-2025 13:10:29 UTC

Both.

Josh: he/they

12-07-2025 13:11:52 UTC

The current arcogenerate wasn’t legally completed as not all of the necessary words were added to the word bank; it’s not a huge issue on its own. Arguably there is an issue that all backronym titles contain words that should be in the word list.

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