Re: [s-d] [s-b] The Simple Non-discriminatory Mentorship Proposal

[Jeff Gitchel <gitchel@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 5/07/2010, at 13:59, M P Darke <darkemalcolm@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> {{
> If any Player responds to a any other Player's public request for a Mentor by volunteering publicly as that Player's Mentor, that volunteering Player will gain 5 points at the end of 2 nweeks from the acceptance of that Player as Mentor by the Player who made the request. At that time, if the Player the Mentor was Mentoring has had an increase in points, then the Player who was the Mentor gains 5 more points.
> }}
> 
> What about the Newbie having lost more points than they gained?
 

Well, the short answer is: that's the breaks.

My thinking was that there are two ways that could happen. First, it could come in spite of the best efforts of the mentor. In which case, the fact that there was any gain at all seems laudable. 

If the backslide is caused by a Mentor trying to take advantage of his position to gain at the expense of the newbie, then I guess lessons will be learned and adjustments made. It is possible a naughty mentor might get 5 points he doesn't deserve and give a newbie a bad experience. This rule does leave room for altruistic behavior on the part of other players to mitigate the bad taste that might leave. The rules allow the transfer of points between players. Not that that would be required, or expected, of anyone of course.

In either event, since newbies start at zero and, as I read the rules, no one can be less than zero, the worst such circumstances could do is leave a newbie at zero.

OR, it could be interpreted as "an increase in points compared to the number of points the newbie had when the mentor became the mentor." But that would seem to punish a hard working mentor who actually DID help the newbie succeed at least momentarily but was not able to prevent the newbie's inherent foolhardiness.

So, messy or not, this seems the simplest and most equitable. 



Gitchel
  
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