Thursday, July 10, 2025

Proposal: Unfortunate Unidle Timing

Popular, 7-1 with 1 DEF and Puzzler voting FOR. Enacted by JonathanDark.

Adminned at 11 Jul 2025 00:53:03 UTC

In the rule “Scoring”, change the sentence

For each Wordsmith other than the Puzzler that did not post a Scoring to that Backronym, subtract 1 from that Wordsmith’s Points, to a minimum of 0, unless the author of that Backronym is that Wordsmith

to

For each Wordsmith other than the Puzzler that did not post a Scoring to that Backronym, subtract 1 from that Wordsmith’s Points, to a minimum of 0, unless the author of that Backronym is that Wordsmith or that Wordsmith was not a Wordsmith when the Backronym was posted

Don’t obligate people who start Wordsmithing mid-round to post scores during a potentially very short window.

Comments

JonathanDark: he/him

10-07-2025 00:46:45 UTC

Good idea

aria: she/they

10-07-2025 01:03:15 UTC

for Yeah, this was kinda annoying.

JonathanDark: he/him

10-07-2025 01:48:09 UTC

for

DeactivatedUser4498:

10-07-2025 03:18:40 UTC

against

Chiiika: she/her

10-07-2025 06:16:23 UTC

imperial honestly? i don’t think it is that big of a deal

Kevan: Yard he/him

10-07-2025 06:33:55 UTC

for

Darknight: he/him

10-07-2025 09:57:41 UTC

for

Josh: he/they

10-07-2025 11:52:48 UTC

for

Bucky:

10-07-2025 17:40:26 UTC

Chiiika, this might not be a big deal in your case, but with no timing protection whatsoever, a new Wordsmith might join and have mere minutes to read the relevant rules and make a Scoring before the Backronym gets closed.

Trapdoorspyder: he/him

11-07-2025 00:19:21 UTC

for

aria: she/they

11-07-2025 00:19:28 UTC

we got lucky in that all the Backronyms were on hold b/c of the proposal regarding scoring them