spoon-discuss: Re: spoon-business: Precedence

[Greg Ritter <gritter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Arghhhh. This is going to cause the game to devolve into an argument of 
what Chutzpah a rule is assigned. All rules start out with a Chutzpah of 1, 
but when someone proposes something and they propose it with a Chutzpah of 
45, then people are going to generate a lot of spam arguing whether its 
Chutzpah should be 1 or 10 or 45 or something else.

In other words, I think Chutzpah being not tied to anything else is going 
to generate a lot of nonsense arguments over Chutzpah.

This makes the precedence system worse, not better. Perhaps the current 
precedence system isn't logical, but at least it's simple.


At 06:38 PM 1/24/2002 -0500, you wrote:
> {{
> __I'm Higher on the Food Chain!__
>
> Amend rule 33 to be:
> {{
> __Chutzpah__
>
> Each Rule has an attribute called Chutzpah, which is a positive integer. In
> the event of a conflict between two or more rules, the rule with the highest
> Chutzpah takes precedence.
>
> If two or more rules have equal Chutzpah, the rule with the lowest
> identification number takes precedence.
>
> If at least one of the rules in conflict explicity says of itself that it
> defers to another rule (or type of rule), then such provisions shall
> supersede the Chutzpah method for determining precedence.
>
> If two or more rules claim to take precedence over each other or to defer to
> one another, then the Chutzpah method again governs.
>
> Whenever one section of a rule conflicts with another section of the same
> rule, the section which appears later in the rule takes precedence over the
> earlier section.
> }}
>
> Give all rules a Chutzpah of 1.
>
> Amend rule 217 to add the text 'When these delimiters are used to delimit a
> rule, they must be followed by a string of the form <<keywordlist,
> Chutzpahvalue>>, where keywordlist is a list of words, and Chutzpahvalue is
> a number. A rule defined this way shall automatically be assigned all
> keywords in the keywordlist, if any, and has a Chutzpah of Chutzpahvalue.'
> }}
>
> Rationale:
> We need a better way of doing precedence, and I think this will work. The
> bit about the standard delimiters allows means that a rule followed by
> <<(Gremlins, Pointsgained, Pointslost, Grid, FuzzyBunnies), 10>> has the
> keywords Gremlins, Pointsgained, Pointslost, Grid, and FuzzyBunnies, and has
> a Chutzpah of 10.
>
>
> --
> Wonko
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