This is a bit of a tangent but I think that Agora could really, REALLY use a better way to record its history. Blognomic has every single dynasty of its history documented, which makes research (and appreciation) of its past very easy. I'm very surprised that Agora has nothing like it yet (aside from scattered theses, many of the which are pretty lost, because they aren't anchored anywhere, and the Reportor), especially because of how old and rich its history is. It's going to all fade into obscurity unless we do something about it.
Maybe there could be an office for Agora academia specifically? The 'Professor'? Has a bi-annual report of all theses, perhaps? Maybe we could make a campaign to make a timeline of Agora history? I dunno. For those unfamiliar with what I mean from Blognomic, the main wiki page has a chronological list of every dynasty, and each dynasty follows the same general structure of the AA that started the dynasty, the main proposals of the dynasty, and then how it was won: * List: https://wiki.blognomic.com/index.php?title=Main_Page * Dynasty example: https://wiki.blognomic.com/index.php?title=The_Twenty-Sixth_Dynasty_of_Kevan To FURTHER show how a well-documented history is a good idea, it's NOT ONLY the history per se which is valuable, having it readily available makes research BASED on analysis of that history possible. For instance, the History of Victories, which has managed to apply a taxonomy to the way that the game is played by digging up the whole past of Blognomic: https://wiki.blognomic.com/index.php?title=History_of_victories I find it remarkable that, even as obscure and unpredictable as nomic can be, a game of "anything", Blognomic has a much richer understanding of the way that their own game of "anything", is played. Like, how do you even start to rodeo and categorize something so vast as the possibilities in nomic? Well, Blognomic has done so, and now has every single dynasty of its history classified into broad styles of gameplay/victory (yes the taxonomy thing was initially my idea lmao but it has now become something a lot bigger than that with the help of the rest of players, especially Kevan). I believe Agora is lagging behind Blognomic when it comes to nomic theses and academia. I'd suggest to find some kind of easy template to fill out to record history like Blognomic has, it doesn't need to be exhaustive - I believe that it definitely shouldn't be exhaustive, really (because if it's too much effort to fill in, it just won't be filled in often enough and people will forget to do it and so on) and definitely some regular report that has links to Agora theses on it so that they're not lost in the void of nobody remembering about them. On Sun, May 10, 2020 at 9:44 PM Edward Murphy via agora-discussion < [email protected]> wrote: > ais523 wrote: > > > The main innovation of Notes is that you needed to collect sets of > > particular pitches in order to do anything, so the goal was, in effect, > > to aim for particular /types/ of glitter to boost your economic > > Including 'singing' Happy Birthday (in any key) for a win. >
