Re: spoon-discuss: Mediocrity isn't exactly fixed

[Dan <wald7330@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Yikes I really messed that one up.  At least I got my points for it.
Considering that the proposal it modified was nothing but a hack to become
Enlightened in the first place I'm doing fairly well off of Contests just
now :-)

OTOH, don't you people ever read proposals before voting for them?  I
should have tried to declare myself emperor or something.

Poulenc

On Thu, 22 Mar 2001, Rob Speer wrote:

> I see two problems with the proposal that passed to fix Mediocrity:
> 
> >The ContestMaster of each Mediocrity sub-game is the winner of the previous
> >sub-game of the same game. 
> >If there was no previous subgame the winner is the ContestMaster of that game.
> The winner of what? The nonexistent previous subgame?
> 
> >If there is no Mediocrity game active any Player start one and declare emself
> >concertmaster of the new game by posting such to the Public Forum.
> Okay, so we get a Concertmaster, but not a ContestMaster.
> 
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> Rob Speer
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