[Spoon-business] Proposal

[Daniel Lepage <dpl33@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I'll do this one first, 'cause it's easy. I'm proposing a new On 
Leave/Off Leave system, as follows: On Leave and Off Leave work as they 
always did, but Stasis, Lurking, and Comatoseness are gone. Instead, 
any player who's silent for too long can be put in The Vat, any player 
who's been in The Vat for too long can be kicked out of the game, and 
any player who declared emself to be Hiding Under A Rock can't be put 
in The Vat.

This also takes responsibility away from Dave, as under this rule 
garbage collection only happens when an active player chooses to 
trigger it: Dave doesn't have to remember who needs to be collected 
and/or Force to Leave.

I propose:

{{
__A Brand-New Shiny Garbage Truck__

Repeal r1532. [[Comatose Players]]
Remove the third paragraph of r205. [[Forced Leave & Lurking]]

Take all players who are On Forced Leave off Forced Leave and make all 
Lurking players cease to be Lurking.

Amend r206 [[Garbage Collection]] in its entirety to read:
{{
__ Garbage Collection __

There exists a collection of players called The Vat.

If a player has made no posts to a public forum in over four nweeks, 
any player may pay three points to put em in The Vat. In order to do 
this, the player must send a message to the public forum announcing 
which player they are putting in The Vat, and must send a copy of that 
message to the player in question.

A Player who is put in The Vat is automatically put On Leave, if e is 
not On Leave already. A Player who ceases to be On Leave also ceases to 
be in The Vat.

If a player has been in The Vat for three consecutive nweeks or longer, 
any player may Smite them with the Mighty Fist of Oblivion. This 
removes the targeted player from the Vat, and causes em to cease to be 
a player.

Any player may, as a Game Action, make emself be Hiding Under A Rock. 
When a player becomes Hiding Under A Rock, e must specify a period of 
time, either in ndays and nweeks or in standard days/weeks/months, with 
a limit of two nyears or one year. If the player remains Hiding Under A 
Rock from the time of that message until the specified period has 
elapsed, then the player ceases to be Hiding Under A Rock once that 
period has elapsed. When a player becomes Hiding Under A Rock, e is 
automatically placed On Leave; if a player comes Off Leave, e ceases to 
be Hiding Under A Rock.

A Player who is Hiding Under A Rock may not be put in The Vat.
}}

Remove " or gone on Forced Leave" from r746. [[Because the end of the 
mentorship  will always fall before it's possible for the newbie to go 
in The Vat]]

}}


--
Wonko
"This gubblick contains many nonsklarkish English flutzpahs, but the 
overall pluggandisp can be glorked [sic] from context" (David Moser, 
quoted by Douglas Hofstadter in his "Metamagical Themas" column in the 
January 1981 "Scientific American")

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