On Mon, 2 Jun 2008, Ed Murphy wrote: > The last few non-scam points wins were in late 2003 to mid-2004, > though those involved grouping the players into four teams. Non-scam > individual points wins occurred twice in 2002, once in 2001, once in > 1998, and the record gets fuzzy after that.
The way points were won at the time were through things that people did anyway: voting, penalties for not voting, etc. I remember that wins just "happened" and no one made a special effort to achieve them per se. I think some of the most interesting wins were through champion's contests, where a contest was allowed to award a win, and the contest was engaging enough that "everyone" was playing. Some options: 1. Any time a contests has 50% or more of active players, it's allowed to award a win by announcement. 2. Points awardable goes up with N^2 or some other power of players. 3. Bring back tactical voting for points (prisoner's dilemmas, insane proposals, etc.) On that note, we used to have the following catories of proposals with different voting rules all at once: Ordinary, Democratic, Urgent, Insane, Sane. Seems rather tame these days. -Goethe
