> On Aug 23, 2017, at 11:37 PM, Cuddle Beam <cuddleb...@gmail.com> wrote: > > like playing I Want To Be The Guy
Steady on! Actually, I broadly agree with your overall thesis. Precedent and history are _important_, and I think it’s worth understanding why things are the way they are before tearing them down or rebuilding them another way - but the way things are is fairly knob-heavy, and I cannot in the slightest blame K for deregistering out of concern for comprehension. My personal coping strategy has been to ignore the mechanics that don’t immediately interest me, more or less, and to focus intently on the ones that do. However, that’s a coping strategy, not a solution: I’m surely missing interesting opportunities by mostly-disregarding ribbons and patent titles, or by not trying terribly hard to win. As a sketch, I’d like to draft two broad proposals: # Repeal the Referee * Convert SHALL NOT et al into something equivalent to CANNOT or IMPOSSIBLE * Modify SHALLs to allow any player to fulfil them if the obliged party does not do so * Destroy the office of Referee entirely, as well as the associated card rules We can always reinvent it, but punishment is probably the wrong paradigm for Agora as it is today, on the whole. A much more narrowly-scoped punishment system for dealing with specific malfeasance might be a practical replacement, and clearing the ground will make it easier to re-draft. # Repeal Organizations They’re moribund, really. No organization presently has more than one active member. -o
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