Ah, a Bayes title so good I had to make a proto around it. Maybe it
wouldn't be a good idea to do this immediately, but let us explore the
corner cases of Caste first; on the other hand, if people don't like
Caste, this might be something interesting to replace it with. (It also
reminds me a lot of the FRC, for some reason.) The idea is to make it
harder and harder to raise voting power due to the need to think up more
and more interesting words; the lowercase letters add flexibility, and
the Note expenditures for changing things are designed to allow
interesting moves like dramatically but temporarily dropping someone
else's voting power.
Proto-proposal (AI=2): Spelling abuse capitalisation VLOP
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[Some bootstrapping stuff so that it doesn't affect votes in progress, I
can't remember how that works. Maybe we should codify it into the rules
rather than into every proposal that changes the way ordinary voting
works?]
Repeal rule 2211.
Replace rule 2156 with:
{{{
Keyword is a player switch, tracked by the Lexicographor, with a range
of all (possibly empty) strings of letters (case-sensitive, and with
order relevant). Its default value is "I" for first-class players, and
the null string for all other players. Changes to keyword are secured.
The eligible voters on an ordinary decision are those entities that were
active players at the start of its voting period. The voting limit of a
voter on an ordinary decision is eir instantaneous VLOP at the start of
that decision, or half that value if e was in the chokey at that time,
where instantaneous VLOP is defined as follows:
* The number of capital letters in eir keyword, if eir keyword is
(case-insensitively) an eligible word;
* 1, if eir keyword is not an eligible word, but the string of
letters that would be formed by removing all lowercase letters
from eir keyword is (case-insensitively) an eligible word;
* 0, otherwise.
An eligible word is any word which occurs in a Rule, and/or any word
defined in a well-known English dictionary.
}}}
Replace paragraphs (1)-(4) under the heading "Notes CAN be spent
(destroyed) as follows:" of rule 2126 with:
{{{
(1) A player CAN, at most once a week, spend five notes forming the
start of a major scale to delete a capital letter in eir keyword, or
insert a capital letter anywhere in eir keyword whilst keeping the other
letters in the same order.
(2) A player CAN, at most once a week, spend five notes forming the
start of a minor scale to delete a capital letter in another player's
keyword, or insert a capital letter anywhere in another player's keyword
whilst keeping the other letters in the same order.
(3) A player CAN spend two notes a major third apart to delete a
lowercase letter in eir keyword, or insert a capital letter anywhere in
eir keyword whilst keeping the other letters in the same order.
(4) A player CAN spend two notes a minor third apart to delete a
lowercase letter in another player's keyword, or insert a lowercase
letter anywhere in another player's keyword whilst keeping the other
letters in the same order.
}}}
and fix the whitespace in this to match the rest of the rule.
Add a rule, with title "The Lexicographer" and power 1:
{{{
The Lexicographer is an office; its holder is responsible for keeping
track of keywords. In addition to the keywords, eir report contains the
number of total letters and capital letters in each keyword, and whether
each keyword is an eligible word.
}}}
Flip each player's keyword to a random word found in this proposal,
written in allcaps, whose length is equal to their numerical Caste
before this proposal passed.
}}}}
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ais523
