Baron von Skippy on 23 Jun 2003 02:17:01 -0000


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Re: [spoon-discuss] The time has come, the Walrus said...


Well...shit, dude.

Okay...let's break this down into some key questions:

1. Are we sticking with the game?

I've been a little burned out on actually coming up with stuff and arguing it out (Wonko knew better...he wouldn't argue with Mr. in a Spacesuit; he'd let me do that and burn myself out on it, then just undo everything that was done), so I'm bordering on drone status. Is everyone else up for continuing?

-I know that, as of late, I've been feeling a little apathetic. This is probably because of several things. I'm not sure what all of them are, but I've got a couple of guesses. One, fallout from that Nomicron bul... er... fiasco. We'll call it a fiasco and move on. That left me a little more walking-on-eggshells than ever before, and a little quieter as a result. Two, my own life, while not as busy as Dave's, is turning over at the moment. I'm graduating high school this week, so for the past few I've been dealing with all the peripherals to that, as well as the thousands of forms my college decided to send me, due back to them the day after the last day of classes... Third, I think this game is slowing down somewhat, and that's sort of reflecting back from me.

The upshot of this for me is that... I don't know. I've got a lot more spare time now, so things may clear up a bunch, or maybe not. I think what this game needs is a purge. A massive purge. We have a lot of rules and we don't use many of them frequently. No two people care about the same things. Hmm, here's a thought. What if we declare an nweek where no one can do anything but repeal/delete things in proposals? Propose to get rid of anything, and we'll pick up from what's left of the ruleset at the end. I'll propose that, what the hey.-

2. What sort of administration processing time delay is acceptable?

Dave is worried that his life won't allow him to continue in the administrative capacity at all...that it's not a question of how long it'd take to complete processing a turn as much as that his real-life demands/options would impede the game to the point of non-functionality. If someone other than Dave were to attempt to do the job, what sort of wait-time would be considered acceptable and non-excessive? My view on admin wait-time has been, "Take however long it takes, as long as we can rest assured it'll eventually get done." On the other hand, we had that one miscreant who was willing to drag our name through the mud because of wait-time. How long is too long?

-Perhaps if we had another Ministry for taking care of changes to the ruleset or counting votes or calculating points or whatever, just so long as it cleared up some time for Dave? Would that speed the process up any? And is there anyone who can and would do it?-

3. How necessary is it to separate administrative duties from playerness?

We've already got ministers for a bunch of things. What's left that absolutely requires a central administrator, and what about that which is left requires or begs a non-player admin? I still think automation would go a long way, but I'll acknowledge that won't solve everything.

-See above.-

This about cover it?

-Probably not, but it'll do for a good start.-

						Glotmorf

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