Add the following to the end of the rule Favorites:
For the purpose of matching Favorites to words, or for the purposes of restrictions on selecting Favorites by comparison to existing corpora, differences in pluralization, tense or grammatical aspect are considered to be irrelevant.
As a daily action, if they have not added any words to their Favorites that day, and if an official post other than a Backronym has been posted by any other Wordsmith or the Puzzler that day that includes a word from their Favorites in its title, a Wordsmith may make a Claim. A Claim is a post in the Story Posts category that details the word in their Favorites and the post that uses it in the title. Upon posting a Claim, the Wordsmith may gain 1 point for every word from their Favorites that was thus used. The Puzzler should then remove that word from that Wordsmith’s Favorites.
In the same rule, change the second item in the bulleted list to read:
That word is not in the Word Bank, and has not been used in the title of an official post in the current dynasty.
Expanding favourites out to proposals and CfJs, as the proposalnym meta is broader and gives more opportunities for an underpowered mechanic to work. Also bringing in one uncontroversial change from a proposal made by Bucky earlier in the dynasty.
I feel like this is a good idea, but this encourages people to post their proposals at 11:59 so that no one has time to claim off of them
because of the last change
Chiiika: she/her