spoon-discuss: Re: spoon-business: Proposal

[bd <bdonlan@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday 15 May 2002 04:15 am, you wrote:
> {{
>  {{
>   __Mentorship__
>
>   A newbie is any player who has been playing for less than two
> nweeks.
>
>   A mentor is a player assigned to help out a newbie.  The newbie that
> they are mentoring is known as a mentee.
>
>   The mentor pool is a set of active players none of whom are newbies
> or mentors.
>
>   Any player who could be part of the mentor pool, but is not can
> become part of the mentor pool by saying that they wish to join the
> mentor pool in a public forum.
>
>   Any player who is part of the mentor pool may cease to be part of
> the mentor pool by announcing that they wish to leave it in a public
> forum.
>
>   When a mentor's mentee ceases to be a newbie then the mentor ceases
> to be a mentor and rejoins the mentor pool.
>
>   If at any point the mentor pool is non-empty and there exists at
> least one newbie who isn't a mentee then the player who has been in
> the mentor pool for the longest time without a break becomes the
> mentor for the newbie who has been a player for the least length of
> time.
>
>   If there exist newbies who are not mentees and the mentor pool is
> empty then players are encouraged to join the mentor pool.
>
>   Newbies are encouraged to ask eir mentor about anything relevant
> to the game, and eir mentor is encouraged to give useful advice to
> eir mentee.
>
>   At the end of eir period of being a mentor, if eir mentee has not
> left the game or gone on Forced Leave, then a mentor receives 5 points
> for being a mentor.  If eir mentee has a positive number of points and
> no Debt then the mentor receives another 5 points.
>  }}
>  Wild Card is added to the mentor pool.
> }}

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