spoon-business: Revision to 267/0

["Karin L. Kross" <karinlee@xxxxxx>]

To clean up a few items pointed out to me by others, I submit the
following revised version of Proposal 267/0, "Girls Will Be Boys
and Boys Will Be Girls...and Drones"

Create a rule as follows:

{{
__Girls Will Be Boys and Boys Will Be Girls...and Drones__

Players have an attribute named Gender. The Gender attribute is
not necessarily the same as the player's biological gender.

A player's Gender attribute may be one of the following: M, F,
Drone, or Undeclared. By default, all players are Undeclared. A
player may select or change eir gender by declaring it in a post
to a public forum.

Gender, once declared, cannot be Undeclared, but it may be
changed. When a player announces a change of Gender, the change
does not take effect until the beginning of the following nweek.

[[This is to keep the admin from having to update the roster
multiple times in an nweek.]]

The act of announcing changes of gender more than twice in an
nday and/or more than twice in an nweek shall be added to the
LOGAS.  A player changing eir Gender from Undeclared to any
declared state counts as a change of gender for this purpose.

[[For example, if Player A, whose Gender is hitherto
Undeclared, announces on Tuesday morning that e is setting eir
gender to M, on Wednesday to F, and on Thursday to Drone, e is as
deserving of a Kick in the Ass as if e had performed all those
actions on the same day.]]
}}

Amend Rule 258/1:__The Pink Cashmere Scarf of Impeccable Style__
by changing the statement

{{
The Style Police must make all posts to Fora, with the exception
of Proposals and Calls For Judgement, in eir best imitation of a
lisp, unless The Pink Scarf is Muffling
}}

to the following:

{{
Unless The Pink Scarf Is Muffling, The Style Police must make all
posts to Fora, with the exception of Proposals and Calls For
Judgement according to the following rules:

1) If the player's declared Gender is M, The Style Police must
make eir posts in the best imitation of a lisp.

2) If the player's declared Gender is F, The Style Police must
make eir posts in eir best imitation of Jane Austen.

[[For example, e may use polite backhanded compliments as
criticism. Refer to Lady Constance in "Gosford Park" as an
example: "Green is such a *difficult* colour..."]]

3) If the player's declared Gender is Drone, the player's posts
must include *buzz* and *crackle* strings at random throughout,
due to the static electricity effects of the Pink Scarf.

4) If the player's Gender is Undeclared, select the effects as
follows.

- If the number of the nweek and nday on which the player
  received the Pink Scarf are both odd, the Scarf affects the
  player as if eir declared gender were M.
- If the number of the nweek and nday are both even, the
  Scarf affects the player as if eir declared gender were F.
- If the number of nweek and nday are mixed, the Scarf
  affects the player as if eir declared gender were Drone.

The effects do not change by the day [[because that would be
confusing and hell to keep track of]]; whatever effect was
applicable on the nday that the player received the Scarf remains
in effect until the Scarf changes ownership or until the player
declares a Gender.

[[This change avoids the issue of dice-rolling and keeping people
honest, and hopefully makes things easier for the admin. :)]]
}}



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