On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 16:12, Sean Hunt<ride...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 3:51 PM, Roger Hicks<pidge...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 15:45, Ed Murphy<emurph...@socal.rr.com> wrote: >>> Even a partial diversion of traffic would help. >>> >> I guess I don't see how. Since it would have to be a PF every one >> would have to be subscribed to it anyway, so no real reduction in >> message traffic. Just more work for new players (one more list to >> subscribe to). What would really help is queuing minor actions via >> web-interface and then having them hit the lists as a digest on a >> periodic schedule (more or less what I suggested with the AAA). That >> would actually reduce message traffic and condense a bunch of minor >> actions into one message. >> >> BobTHJ >> > > It would mean that you wouldn't need to constantly stay updated. > Ideally, agora-actions would contain things that could be plowed > through by the recordkeepors, while real game play becomes less full > of chaff. I will vehemently oppose any motion to make web interfaces > official in any capacity, unless someone proposes a web interface that > is neutral to all Agorans and retains the nomicness. > Except you would need to stay constantly updated because "ideally" never happens in a nomic. People would accidentally (or more likely, intentionally) use the action list to post other more meaningful actions, and in the end everyone would still have to watch it closely. Except now the number of public forums is incremented, and you have more to subscribe to and more archives to search across to find past messages.
proto-contract: People for the Reduction of Messages (PRM) Parties to this contract can initiate minor actions (voting, harvesting, milling, etc.) via the web-interface located at XXX. Parties grants the manager of this contract permission to act on eir behalf (via the web interface) to perform minor actions they initiate via the web-interface. Once each day, the web-interface SHALL send a message to a-b with all the minor actions that were initiated by parties during that day. BobTHJ
