[spoon-discuss] Re: [Spoon-business] Nweek 63 BALLOT

[Daniel Lepage <dpl33@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On May 27, 2004, at 3.47 PM, Zarpint wrote:

> > Proposal 1858/0: No Secret Kickbacks (Sagitta)
> NO
>
> By the way, Wonko, or should I say 8-9-3, your Uinish trick here won't
> work, because things in props don't refer to a player unless they say
> "The Player 8-9-3", or they're unambiguous (unlike this prop).

Yeah, I think I'm not allowed to change my name to that of an entity 
mentioned in a current proposal anyway. I'll change it back next nweek 
if it's currently 8-9-3; I just wanted to make the point that this prop 
doesn't necessarily specify something uniquely (I could have made a 
Club called 8-9-3, or called that my philosophy).

> I think that the phrase "['one point']" is a parenthetical expression,
> but with brackets instad of parentheses. Since {{ }} are the standard
> delimiters, it's clear that what's being added is what's in the {{ }}s.

Why would we assume that the brackets are meant to function like 
parentheses? Why not just use parens?

> > Proposal 1859/0: Slow Down (Zarpint)
> YES
>
> Wonko, yes, if you were so inclined to do that, I do think you should
> be able to stop the game by removing a quote from the page. I think
> we would probably hold a vote of no confidence for you after you did 
> so,
> but I think the game should not proceed if the displays aren't 
> up-to-date.

As far as I can tell, if I went Lurking and forgot to add a quote, this 
change would force a SOE: your vote of No Confidence wouldn't happen 
until the clock restarted, which it would never do. I'd rather not stop 
the game for out-of-date displays until somebody's come up with a way 
to compensate for problems like that.

I also think it's too vague as it stands - all sorts of 'public 
displays' are out of date all the time, though not all of them relate 
to our game. If I were to create a new webpage that said "B Nomic 
Rules: None yet, the game hasn't started" would you call that an 
out-of-date public display? It's public, it's on display, it relates to 
the game, and it would have been valid three years ago...

--
Wonko

"If I ask you to pay attention to the weight of your body pressing on 
your buttocks as you set reading, you will momentarily stop reading."
	-David G. Myers, _Psychology: Myers in Modules_

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