[spoon-discuss] Being an Admin

[Daniel Lepage <dpl33@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

So I've now had my first taste of Being an Admin, having just entered 
all the stuff I recognized in the website. I realized that a lot of 
things could be much easier if a few things were changed...

First of all, if we adopted a standard syntax for creating/amending 
objects, that'd make things worlds easier.

One such syntax (to rip off Joel's syntax from A Nomic) would be to 
specify a document of type doctype in <doctype>, </doctype> delimiters, 
with info on what to do to it in there. For example, you might say

<proposal create title="Let's do that again!">
Do this to the rules:
<rule amend="256" title="Gremlins v2.0">
There don't exist Gremlins. Nyah.
</rule>
<rule repeal="301"></rule>
<rule create title="Repeat!">
At the end of each nweek, all changes made since the beginning of the 
nweek are retroactively removed and time is wound back to the beginning 
of the nweek.
</rule>

Give each player 10 points.
</proposal>


Then, rather than picking an object type from a pull-down menu, typing 
in a title, and copying the main body of the prop, I could just copy 
the whole block into a text box and hit 'submit'. Then when 
implementation time came around, I could copy in all the rule blocks 
and need to do nothing else.

OTOH, the proposal tracker now on the Wiki works; all it needs is for 
proposals to be numbered separately from other documents. If somebody 
proposes that right now, I'll be very happy; if not, I'll try to find 
time to write up a decent proposal before Voting starts tomorrow at 6 
PM.

--
Wonko


Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty.
                -- Plato

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