On Sat, 15 Jun 2019 at 02:36, Jason Cobb <jason.e.c...@gmail.com> wrote: > > [As with most things, I have no idea if this has been tried or suggested > before.] > > Seeing the recent issue with the Ritual and how no individual person > could be assigned blame for the failure got me wondering if it would be > a viable to instead assign Blots to Agora as a whole for violations such > as this. As of this point, the Ritual has no legal teeth, as in no > person can be criminally punished for failure to perform it. Aris had > mentioned that the Rule was supposed to create a "collective > responsibility" to perform the Ritual. Such a system in which Agora > could be assigned Blots would create a legally-enforced collective > responsibility without holding any individual player criminally liable. > > Obviously, Agora just accumulating Blots would not help the problem of > toothless laws. This could probably be remedied by having the Blots > "trickle down" into Blots for each individual Player (probably at a very > reduced ratio). I'm sure you all could be more creative than me :). > > Anyway, this is obviously just an idea (maybe not even a good idea), and > I would love feedback. Thanks! :) > > -- > Jason Cobb
This could be a fun direction to go. One thought: if everyone is equally punished, there might not be much motivation for any individual to fix it, except that if we're getting a lot of blots, someone wanting to win the game might need to fix it first. Another thought: in February G. told us [0] about an old rule called The Pariah, which encouraged players to enforce minor rule violations against whoever held that office. This makes me think of creating an officeholder we can point our finger at for rule violations that nobody else is responsible for, but I don't think that would work very well --- the other players wouldn't have motivation to fix up the rules to stop silly things like rules violating other rules (see the other thread I just revived). But maybe some tweak to the concept is possible, like just giving a reward to anyone who points out a non-player is guilty of something. Not sure how it should work. [0] https://mailman.agoranomic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/private/agora-discussion/2019-February/053419.html
