Re: [spoon-discuss] Straw Poll on the Government Turnover

[Daniel Lepage <dpl33@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On May 30, 2004, at 9.26 PM, Zarpint wrote:

> Thanks for the explanation. So it is similar to camping outside the box
> office, except it cycles. Like if you sold the ticket for more than you
> bought it for and got back in line. How does this relate to the Open
> Source Government Idea again?

The problem with the Telephone was that it was susceptible to this sort 
of 'camping': it encouraged players to hang around online waiting for 
Dave to publish the recognizer so they could jump on it and get the 
small point bonus.
	I think the fear with OSG is that we'll have players who sit around 
waiting for the end of the nweek so that they can immediately grab the 
duties before other players can. If we have any strong incentives to 
fulfill duties (and I definitely think we should), then these players 
will be at a serious advantage in the game, even if the only reason why 
they can camp like this is because they live in a time zone where 
nweeks end at a comfy 7 PM instead of at 1 in the morning.

--
Wonko

"This gubblick contains many nonsklarkish English flutzpahs, but the 
overall pluggandisp can be glorked [sic] from context" (David Moser, 
quoted by Douglas Hofstadter in his "Metamagical Themas" column in the 
January 1981 "Scientific American")

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