On Sat, May 9, 2020 at 12:40 AM Kerim Aydin via agora-discussion < [email protected]> wrote:
> > On 5/8/2020 6:16 AM, Publius Scribonius Scholasticus wrote: > > On Fri, May 8, 2020 at 9:10 AM Rebecca wrote: > > > >> Reporter is awful: it has been abolished TWICE in my time as an official > >> position because it is useless. It is just very bad. > > > > Could you elaborate on this? nch seems to be proposing a new paradigm for > > these offices that wouldn't expect them to always be filled. This is in > > line with previous discussions that proposed similar things. I think that > > your response without further explanation is very rude and > inappropriately > > dismissive of eir ideas, particularly after we've put up with your recent > > sloppy win attempt. > > > > Having seen Reportor come and go so many times I agree with R. Lee, the > issue for me is that it's really a bit of creative writing on game > summaries. Which is good and definitely adds to the game when it happens, > but doesn't really fit with a held-office weekly-report model. The most > successful runs have been those who did it voluntarily when it wasn't an > office, and didn't worry about skipping a few weeks, didn't worry about > tracking the office, etc. > > It might be worth experimenting with "tasking" type of responsibility for > this one without calling it an office e.g. some version of "If no player > has published the Newspaper in the current week, any player CAN do so." > > -G. > > > I have never once got any value out of any form of the newspapers (well except the ones I intentionally published with no text to get paid lol), mainly because it's actually a lot easier to catch up on the game by reading emails than by reading someone's incomplete summary of those emails. -- >From R. Lee
