Re: [s-b] I believe I gain 5 points.

[James Baxter <jebaxter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2010 08:42:18 -0700
> From: emurphy42@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> To: spoon-business@xxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [s-b] I believe I gain 5 points.
> 
> Gitchel wrote:
> 
> > I can see where you may be eligible for the points, since you got
> > no Mentor, but I'm confused by the part where "mentors cannot
> > become mentors".
> 
> This may have been tied to revision 0 ("The mentor pool is a set of
> active players none of whom are newbies or mentors").  Actually, the
> current version is even more confusingly broken ("A mentor is an active
> player who ... is neither a newbie nor already a mentor").
> 
> Proposal:  Fix mentorship (this time for real)
> 
> Amend Rule 62 to read:
> {{{
> A newbie is any player who first became a player during either the
> current or immediately previous nweek, and has not left the game since then.
> 
> A mentor is a player who volunteers or is assigned to help out a newbie
> (hereafter eir mentee).
> 
> Mentees are encouraged to ask eir mentor about anything relevant to the
> game, and eir mentor is encouraged to give useful advice to eir mentee.
> 
> Any player may volunteer as a mentor by announcing such in a public
> forum, specifying eir mentee.
> 
> Any player may avoid or refuse assignment as a mentor by announcing such
> in a public forum, specifying a time period or other condition for eir
> exclusion.
> 
> While there is at least one newbie with no mentor, the Registrar may and
> should assign the player who has been eligible for mentorship for the
> longest time without a break to the newbie who has been a player for the
> shortest time.
> 
> Immediately before a player ceases to be a newbie, the following things
> happen in this order:
> a) If the newbie never gained a mentor, then e receives 5 points.
> b) If the newbie has a mentor, then eir mentor receives 5 points.
> c) If the newbie has a positive number of points, no Debt, and is not
> eligible to be placed on Forced Leave, then e receives 5 points, and so
> does eir mentor (if any).
> d) Eir mentor (if any) ceases to be a mentor.
> 
> Only an active non-newbie player may become or stay a mentor.  Only a
> newbie without a mentor can gain a mentor.
> }}}


This is Proposal 2038. 		 	   		  
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