Re: [s-d] Re: New Subgame Idea...

[Daniel Lepage <dpl33@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On May 2, 2005, at 7.41 PM, Alex Truelsen wrote:

> On 5/2/05, Peter Cooper Jr. <pete+bnomic@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Raelus <raelusaetherira@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
> > > Also, is this relatively low activity for B Nomic, or is it always
> > > like this?
> >
> > The amount of activity I've seen in the past couple weeks is much
> > higher than I've seen since I joined the game, which was around the
> > beginning of the real-world year. Wonko once said, I think, that it
> > has periods of very high activity and periods of very low activity.
>
>
> I believe that once shortly after I joined... probably January 2002, 
> it was,
> I didn't check my e-mail for about two days and was greeted by more 
> than 80
> messages on my return. We may be approaching that level again, but it 
> does
> go up and down. My guess is that this is a flare-up caused by the 
> game's
> rebirth, with all kinds of new territory to stick proposals into, and 
> that
> it will begin to settle and/or become more routine.
>
> Or not.

The two records, I believe, are two weeks with one message in them and 
over a hundred messages in a little under two hours.

It seems that Activity comes and goes because many players like making 
games but not playing them. New ideas appear, and dozens of follow-up 
props expand and enhance the idea, but when people stop coming up with 
things to add, interest wanes until one subgame gets repealed and 
another gets forged.

--
Wonko

In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a 
really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would 
actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them 
again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, 
because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it 
happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that 
happened in politics or religion.
      -Carl Sagan, 1987 CSICOP Keynote Address

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