Re: [s-d] Re: [s-b] [auto] PlayerPersonman submits p1912/0

[Jake Eakle <jseakle@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> You won't actually get any bonus points for your proposal as it stands.
> The restrictions laid out by Limerick form and Void form apply to the
> entire prop; having a rule within the prop that conforms doesn't
> suffice. In your prop, the line 'Add section A.6 to rule 437:' contains
> an 'e' and doesn't fit in any limerick, so you don't meet the
> requirements for either form.
> 
> As for the Form Creation Bonus, I wonder if we should do away with it
> entirely. It's not too hard to propose a rule in a poetic form, but it
> is hard to do it well (consider how ugly the Song Form and Void Form
> sections are). Because of this, most Poetic props do not create rules
> or make large changes to them,  and I don't think we should be
> encouraging the creation of props that do.

If this is true, did the haiku and song props not get their authors any
points? Neither one contains the Add a section text within the actual poetry
bit... Somehow, i kinda think the clauses in each of the forms that exclude
the name and comments also exclude such introductory text. I'm not sure of
the necessity of the Add a rule, Add a section, Modify rule X, etc. text
under the current rules, but if it is necessary then no one could ever get
any points for a poem form without devoting most of it to this text, and if
it's not it would be trivial for me to simply remove it, and more efficient
to ignore it for poetry purposes...


> 
> It took me awhile to figure out where this '200 points' figure was
> coming from :) I guess it never occurred to me to read it that way.
> 
> The intent here was to give not "10 score" points, but 10 "score
> points"; the word 'score' indicates that these are score points, as
> opposed to points of bandwidth, Respect points, points of Entropy, or
> any of the dozens of things that could have been called 'points'
> throughout this game's history.
> 

Perhaps the quotes should be added for clarity?


> Even with your explanation, I still don't understand the meaning of
> 'six among six'.

Six among six = six distributed among six people = six divided by six:

30 + (6 / 6) = 31 syllables. 

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