Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Herald polling honor

2019-07-22 Thread Jason Cobb
Thanks :). Jason Cobb On 7/22/19 9:29 PM, Rebecca wrote: Notice of honour -1 nch for taking my honour for dumb reasons +1 Jason Cobb for being a cool new playing dude

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Herald polling honor

2019-07-22 Thread Reuben Staley
On 7/22/19 2:06 PM, Reuben Staley wrote: On 7/21/19 7:26 PM, ais...@alumni.bham.ac.uk wrote: >>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

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Herald polling honor

2019-07-22 Thread Reuben Staley
On 7/21/19 7:26 PM, ais...@alumni.bham.ac.uk wrote:> 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

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Herald polling honor

2019-07-22 Thread Timon Walshe-Grey
On Monday, July 22, 2019 2:58 PM, Kerim Aydin wrote: > On 7/21/2019 7:01 PM,ais...@alumni.bham.ac.uk 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

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Herald polling honor

2019-07-22 Thread Kerim Aydin
On 7/21/2019 7:01 PM, ais...@alumni.bham.ac.uk 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

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Herald polling honor

2019-07-21 Thread ais...@alumni.bham.ac.uk
On Sun, 2019-07-21 at 21:54 -0400, Jason Cobb wrote: > On 7/21/19 9:26 PM, ais...@alumni.bham.ac.uk wrote: > > (Ugh, I hate top-posting threads, but it's too late to reverse this > > now.) > > I'm sorry, what's a "top-posting thread" and why is it bad? It's down to how the nested quotes of the

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Herald polling honor

2019-07-21 Thread Jason Cobb
Ah, got it. Although I think I prefer to see the new content at the top - I can always look back in my email to see the context. Jason Cobb On 7/21/19 9:56 PM, Rebecca wrote: he's just talking about email technology. some clients by default put the previous emails in the thread below the

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Herald polling honor

2019-07-21 Thread Rebecca
he's just talking about email technology. some clients by default put the previous emails in the thread below the email (like gmail) and some others put them above. i _could_ edit it to make it above but i prefer just clicking send, sorry xD On Mon, Jul 22, 2019 at 11:54 AM Jason Cobb wrote: >

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Herald polling honor

2019-07-21 Thread Jason Cobb
I'm sorry, what's a "top-posting thread" and why is it bad? Jason Cobb On 7/21/19 9:26 PM, ais...@alumni.bham.ac.uk wrote: (Ugh, I hate top-posting threads, but it's too late to reverse this now.)

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Herald polling honor

2019-07-21 Thread ais...@alumni.bham.ac.uk
(Ugh, I hate top-posting threads, but it's too late to reverse this now.) 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

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Herald polling honor

2019-07-21 Thread Rebecca
Well it's fine as is, surely one of our best rules imo On Mon, Jul 22, 2019 at 9:40 AM Aris Merchant < thoughtsoflifeandligh...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'd be opposed to that. People might start bribing others for Karma, > which defeats the purpose of the system. > > -Aris > > On Sun, Jul 21, 2019

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Herald polling honor

2019-07-21 Thread Aris Merchant
I'd be opposed to that. People might start bribing others for Karma, which defeats the purpose of the system. -Aris On Sun, Jul 21, 2019 at 4:37 PM Rebecca wrote: > > Very much worth keeping imo, but maybe it should have consequences like a > win at some point - once a year maybe? > > On Mon,

DIS: Re: BUS: Herald polling honor

2019-07-21 Thread Rebecca
Very much worth keeping imo, but maybe it should have consequences like a win at some point - once a year maybe? On Mon, Jul 22, 2019 at 8:25 AM Reuben Staley wrote: > I actually rather like the system, it's just hard to remember to do > anything with it. It's also sometimes difficult to find

DIS: Re: BUS: Herald polling honor

2019-07-21 Thread Aris Merchant
I like the system too. I think it might be more fun if we made it very slightly more game relevant. I had an idea for that a little while ago: Once every X period, the Shogun can issue a memorandum, stipulating recommendations for the good of the good of the game (e SHOULD not use this for eir