spoon-discuss: Re: spoon-business: Proposal: What's in a Name.

[Joel Uckelman <uckelman@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Quoth "Kieron Jarvis":
> [[Well, I was underwhelmed with responses (is it vacation time in the US ?).
> But the votes are in and the provisional winner is.....

Um, since most of us are students, I'd be surprised if anyone were on 
vacation right now. We're currently stuck firmly in the morass that is the 
fall semester, and won't have a break until late this month.

> With 2 votes in favour - 'Aphasia'.

Hmm. Possibly I forgot to vote. Cimonomic is my favorite...
 
> I will accept late votes during the week, but if no more votes are received
> then this proposal will go to the vote.]]
> 
> Here is the proposal entitled "What's in a Name":
> 
> I propose that Rule 1/0 : The Game be amended to read
> 
> "Aphasia shall refer to the specific instance of Nomic game which possesses
> the body of rules containing this definition, unless it is made clear,
> whether explicitly or via the context, that Aphasia refers to something
> else. To this end, all permutations of letter case of Aphasia shall be
> considered equivalent."
> 
> [[Regardless of what name we have, I think we should have a name so that we
> can be referred to unambiguously on the Nomic web site and related database
> (at least).
> 
> XnJester]]

A suggestion: when we attempted to chose a name for Berserker, people 
submitted names and then ranked them in order of preference. We had a large 
number of names ( >20, I think), which makes ranking more difficult. A 
common complaint was that below some threshold, our preferences don't 
differentiate between alternatives very well. E.g. do my preferences really 
have such high resolution for me to see a difference between what I ranked 
30th and 31st? Since there are relatively fewer suggestions on your list, 
however, this problem might be avoidable, and a ranking may produce a 
better result than it did for Berserker (which few seemed to like, though 
it won), especially if you include a 'status quo' option, i.e. stick with 
no name.

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J.

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