Re: spoon-discuss: Re: spoon-business: The Daily Recognizer (Wednesday afternoon)

["Glotmorf" <glotmorf@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 4/10/02 at 4:59 PM Wonko wrote:

>Remember when I said that I thought Weather Gnomes might be hell on the
>admin? I was wrong. Next to Insta-rules, Weather Gnomes look like rules
>that
>say "The admin need not do anything".
>
>What you're asking for here is for the admin to be constantly rewriting not
>only the proposal page, but now the Ruleset page as well.
>
>Perhaps I'm overreacting, but I strongly suspect that this would be bad.
>
>--Wonko

Let's see...five-plus proposals per player per nweek, one grid move per nweek, changes of locations of gremlins, gnomes, beer cans and other objects, however many random-access modifications of the ruleset that the proposals generate, however many CFJs get submitted (which, strictly speaking, is unlimited), updating multiple roster attribute values for each player each nweek...

What Insta-Rules proposes is, on the average, slightly less than one addition to or deletion from a sequential list per player per nweek.  Compared to all the Admin currently does, Insta-Rules would probably be one of the simplest things that could be added to the burden.

Unless we're going to turn introspective and only make proposals that tighten the existing ruleset, just about anything we propose will create a burden for the Admin.  In fact, turning introspective might make even more work for the Admin, since that'd involve minor text editings to numerous existing rules.

Not that I'm saying the Admin exists for the purposes of burdens being dumped on him.  Except...that does in fact seem to be the nature of the game.

						Glotmorf