Wonko on 10 Mar 2002 05:03:59 -0000


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Re: spoon-discuss: Re: spoon-business: Proposal Overhaul


Quoth Donald Whytock,

> On 3/9/02 at 5:51 PM Wonko wrote:
> 
>> I replace proposal 432 with the following:
>> {{
>> __Literary Criticism__
>> 
>> Replace the last sentence of rule 438 with the following:
>> " When a player votes on a proposal which is in Prose Form, e may also give
>> that proposal a rating, which is an integer between 0 and 15. If e does
>> not,
>> e is assumed to have given that proposal a rating of 7. If a proposal in
>> Prose Form passes, its proponent recieves a number of points equal to the
>> average of all ratings given to that proposal by players other than the
>> proponent."
>> }}
>> 
>> Rationale: The way it's worded right now, I could argue that I should get
>> ten points for including [[The man said,]] at the beginning of each of my
>> proposals. This way, I could do that, but everyone would rate it 0.
>> 
>> Oh, and before I forget, I Object to every statement made by the Admin that
>> involves "The second law of thermodynamics". (because otherwise two nweeks
>> from now the correctly spelled one will be replaced by the incorrectly
>> spelled (and undefined) one).
>> 
>> 
>> --Wonko
> 
> You can object if you want, but with 129/3 now in effect, all you're doing is
> voicing your opinion.
Oh. Well, whatever.
> Regarding the Prose Form change: I gather you didn't want to try to nail down
> a definition of story or narrative?

Can you come up with a good way to do it?

-- 
Wonko