Tuesday, April 20, 2021

Call for Judgment: urgent image decay fix

Reached quorum 9 votes to 0. Enacted by Kevan. World Data becomes images; I think all the “The Facility Head will” stuff has no effect because it’s not giving the enacting admin an instruction, and is not modifying ruleset or gamestate.

Adminned at 20 Apr 2021 15:21:16 UTC

In “World Wide Web”, replace the first paragraph with the following:

A piece of World Data is an image randomly generated by the Facility Head using [https://www.generatormix.com/random-image-generator this website]. The settings used to generate World Data are as follows: Random Category, Image Type Any, Colors Any, Safe Mode On. The number of pieces of World Data an AI owns defaults to zero, and is publicly tracked. The specific contents of each piece of World Data is tracked privately by the Facility Head and the owner of the World Data. The two variables are linked, and if the number of pieces of World Data an AI has increases or decreases, that AI gains (via the Facility Head) or loses (randomly from their owned pieces) a matching amount of World Data.
When the Facility head generates a new piece of World Data for an AI, they must PM that AI a link to the World Data image. If an AI requests to be shown the World Data image for a piece of World Data they own, the Facility Head should privately show them the image.

Replace all pieces of World Data with the images linked to in their previous text strings. For each piece of World Data in the game for which no AI or Facility Head has saved the image and the World Data’s prior text string no longer links to an image, the Facility Head will replace that World Data with a fresh piece of World Data as soon as possible. If an AI has a copy of a piece of World Data but the Facility Head doesn’t, that AI will privately send the image for that piece of World Data to the Facility Head over Slack. The Facility Head will then privately send the images for all pieces of World Data to their owners over Slack.
Set every AIs’ Understanding to blank.

ok this should resolve the emergency with maximum clarity? ill check back in in an hour for edits!

Comments

Clucky: he/him

20-04-2021 05:20:58 UTC

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My trees *sob*

Kevan: he/him

20-04-2021 07:09:21 UTC

for Although future-tense “the Facility Head will replace that World Data with a fresh piece of World Data as soon as possible” probably doesn’t work (it’s explicitly ruled out for proposals by “If the Admin enacting a Proposal reaches a step which cannot be applied immediately” and I think implicitly by CfJ enactment being limited to “the Admin Enacting it shall update the Gamestate and Ruleset”).

lemon: she/her

20-04-2021 08:16:40 UTC

oh, dang! well, lesson learned. maybe i couldve made that a… temporary rule? we can figure it out though, maybe with another cfj? altho w/ that interpretation can *anything* other than the rules text & Understanding blank be enacted by an admin, since world data is secretly tracked? i mean its gamestate but one admin can’t edit it all themself

if this doesn’t implicitly ruin everybody’s already-gathered world data i guess its fine to fix it later though

Kevan: he/him

20-04-2021 08:33:34 UTC

Hum, good point about secret data. It’s maybe okay under Representations of the Gamestate, in the same way that me enacting “increase Clucky’s Suspicion by 1” but forgetting to update the wiki gamestate for it could be completed by someone else: the admin changes the gamestate by waving a magic wand, even if they can’t see what that gamestate is, and other players can correct it accordingly.

But yes, a temporary rule would have done the job here.

Lulu: she/her

20-04-2021 10:56:25 UTC

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pokes:

20-04-2021 11:46:37 UTC

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Raven1207: he/they

20-04-2021 12:09:22 UTC

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Janet: she/her

20-04-2021 13:51:32 UTC

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Darknight: he/him

20-04-2021 14:34:33 UTC

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Brendan: he/him

20-04-2021 15:02:18 UTC

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