On Mon, 8 Jun 2009, Roger Hicks wrote: > On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 10:26, Sean Hunt<ride...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Kerim Aydin wrote: >>> I vote: >>>> 6344 O 1 1.0 BobTHJ Nicked Off >>> AGAINST. If this comes close to passing I'll start insisting on my full >>> nickname before it passes. I shall also insist on the long version after >>> it passes and violate the rule in civil protest. If you choose to blot me >>> out of the game, so be it. Why not Agora the Beautiful while you're at it? >> >> As written, the proposal appears to grandfather old nicknames, since >> there's no way to force established players to pick names. >> > Plus you provided a shortened alternative (G.) so your nickname > selection would be in compliance with this rule anyway. It wasn't > aimed at you.
I will reject the shortened alternative before this passes. But there's a rather more substantial bug; by legislating nicknames, it makes them the "official" name, so officer's reports are inaccurate without them. If I choose a new long nick (think *truly* long), and REFUSE to pick a short alternative, I will *happily* take the 5-blot penalty in return for seeing officers be required to reproduce the full nickname or be dinged for not producing a full report. The way it is now, with no legislation and flexible judicial guidance, coppro is free to use Goethe in eir report with nothing but minor but ineffectual annoyance from me. Do you really want to give me or any player the ability to formally declare such expediencies to be inaccurate? -G.
