On Mon, 2008-10-13 at 12:04 -0500, Ben Caplan wrote: > On Monday 13 October 2008 11:50:00 am ais523 wrote: > > On Sun, 2008-10-12 at 12:05 -0500, Ben Caplan wrote: > > > I retract that proposal, and submit the following AI=1, II=1, > > > entitled "Creative contest switching v.2": > > > > This is an incredibly bad idea. Goethe deregistered over root's > > equity contest scam (which I was involved in); this would make the > > scam not only work, but written into the ruleset as a legal > > possibility. (I thought about exploiting it rather than telling > > everyone, but that would likely lead to chaos with nobody gaining > > more than anybody else.) > > Can you elaborate on how this might be exploited?
Three players create a contract that allows any of its parties to flip its contestmaster by announcement. They take turns as contestmaster from week to week: player A awards 15 points to player B, then flips the contestmaster to B who awards 15 points to C the next week, then flips the contestmaster to C who awards 15 points to A the week after, and so on. There's nothing anyone else can do about it, except via proposal. Probably you could fix that by only allowing contracts which are already contests to specify a mechanism for flipping their contestmaster. -- ais523
