On Sun, 2017-07-02 at 21:27 +0200, Cuddle Beam wrote: > "A player SHOULD perform an action as an assisted action only if that > player is new to Agora (and thus has not yet had much of a chance to > earn shinies), or if that action has only trivial consequences, or if > that action is intended to be beneficial to Agora as a whole." > > I'm wary of codified ethics. > > I fear this can spring all kinds of drama (what is "new"? what is > "trivial"? Is this trivial enough? How about that? But HE said that > THIS was trivial, then MY thing should be trivial, right? right?, > etc). I'd much prefer a more formal restriction. For example, "new" > is defined as being less than X days old.
It's a SHOULD, not a SHALL (and included mostly to give people guideline on when to support). You can violate it so long as you have a reason. (Doesn't even have to be a good reason, really; "I know I'm only supposed to do this if I'm new but I really want to" is enough of a reason to violate the SHOULD. It's just that you perhaps shouldn't expect people to support you if you do this.) > If you can make the neologisms like "socially pended" and the > mechanics themselves be more intuitive, all the better. It's not very > gameplay ergonomic right now. (the AP stuff an all was so smooth and > simple to grasp, because its was so similar to videogames. All of > this support stuff and the times stuff and all gets obscure and a > chore to interpret and it seems hard to use because of the times and > the need to summon help plus needing to have it conform to that > codified ethics. Too many things to check and arrange. Not as > elegant). I think the AP stuff was economically problematic as given as there'd very rarely be a need to spend shinies. How often does a typical player do three proposals/CFJs in a week? The answer is "not often", and all those players would just hoard Shinies as they have no reason to spend them. Worth noting: I didn't put Stamps in this proposal as I consider those to be something separate. -- ais523
