On Sat, 3 Aug 2013, Fool wrote: > On 03/08/2013 7:34 PM, Elliott Hird wrote: > > On 4 August 2013 00:22, Fool<[email protected]> wrote: > > > This danger doesn't even sound plausible to me. Everyone's confused and > > > goes > > > home, and never comes back? I doubt it. > > > > More likely is that everyone gets sick of you acquiring and > > maintaining your dictatorship in ways that go quite strongly against > > tradition in terms of the limitations of scams (especially dictatorial > > ones) and the spirit of the game, and stop fighting it. > > I even asked about this. Alex Smith suggested that I had until the controversy > was settled to dispose of my dictatorship. Is that not tradition? Is the > controversy settled then?
"Best form", fwiw, is to implement and dispose of your power swiftly (Eg within a set of messages all in sequence), minimizing game disruption. For a scam a couple years back where I deregistered everyone, I did so, fixed the problem, gave myself and helpers patent titles, and rebooted back to where we were in a couple messages. If it had been judged a failure, the only thing that would have to be rewound would have been the single fix proposal and the titles. Even so, at least 1 or 2 people were annoyed enough to quit iirc. Note: not criticizing or lecturing here (trying not to anyway), just relaying how to minimize getting people het up if they are inclined to do so.
