On Fri, 21 Oct 2011, ais523 wrote: > On Fri, 2011-10-21 at 12:44 -0700, Kerim Aydin wrote: > > On Fri, 21 Oct 2011, Kerim Aydin wrote: > > > Alternate thought as I'm typing this: awarding Medals seems like a > > > particularly Speaker or President type job. > > > > Follow-up irony: BlogNomic's Critic is what I'd always hoped Agora's > > Speaker would be. > > I need to go write a thesis some time as to why that tends to cause > problems in practice when it's tied to wins. (Because it is, but it's > nontrivial to explain why.)
Come to think of it, the last time Agora had a sufficiently powerful Speaker it was a wholly elected position orthogonal to winning. Other times of powerful elected officers have been interesting in a good way, too (e.g. Poobah). Succession list was maybe 50/50 (ascension based on accumulation of game position that was only partly winning-governed).
