On Monday, July 22, 2019 2:58 PM, Kerim Aydin <[email protected]> wrote: > On 7/21/2019 7:01 PM,[email protected] wrote: > > Agora used to be exclusively bottom-posted, but there was an influx of > > new players a while back whose email clients top-posted by default and > > it's lead to a mix of quoting styles being used. > > It's really terrible IMO. Bottom-posting for life - it makes for far > far better conversations (especially for following logical arguments). > I gave up a while ago. It's a pity - we used to enforce that socially but > have lost the battle. > > -G.
I can't believe I've been here over a year and never noticed this was a thing. It certainly does make more sense (especially since my email client, when left to its own devices, keeps mangling the things it's quoting). I was about to try giving ais523 karma for bringing it up but apparently Notices of Honour only work for players, which seems a shame. ais523 wrote: > Arguably, nomics' best rules are those that don't really do anything. > > The FRC had a rule that the player who gained the most style points in > the previous round was the Wizard, and other players had to refer to > them only as the Wizard (using any other name would end up giving you a > penalty within the game, so the rule was mostly just there to catch > people out). IIRC it was repealed a while ago, but that's the sort of > harmless and ultimately inconsequential reward that makes sense for > something like Karma. > > "Shogun" wouldn't really work properly for that because it's not as > funny as "Wizard", but maybe we could have a mandatory title rather > than name, "the honorable Aris" or whatever. Ideally not as a SHALL; > perhaps it could be a SHOULD with a trivial consequence for breaking it > (and a corresponding trivial reward for catching a breach, as this > would have to be pragmatised). I love this! My vote is for something ridiculous like "Eir Supreme Karmic Magnificence" but I like "the honorable" too (or "the honourable" to match the spelling in R2510). Or of course we could just rename "Shogun" to something funnier, unless it has other significance I'm not aware of. -twg
