On 7/21/19 7:26 PM, ais...@alumni.bham.ac.uk wrote:> The FRC had a rule
that the player who gained the most style points in
the previous round was the Wizard, and other players had to refer to
them only as the Wizard (using any other name would end up giving you a
penalty within the game, so the rule was mostly just there to catch
people out). IIRC it was repealed a while ago, but that's the sort of
harmless and ultimately inconsequential reward that makes sense for
something like Karma.
"Shogun" wouldn't really work properly for that because it's not as
funny as "Wizard", but maybe we could have a mandatory title rather
than name, "the honorable Aris" or whatever. Ideally not as a SHALL;
perhaps it could be a SHOULD with a trivial consequence for breaking it
(and a corresponding trivial reward for catching a breach, as this
would have to be pragmatised).
Very early Agora actually had something even sillier that we could adapt.
O Citizens of Agora, feast now thine eyes upon Rule 357 as its text read
on November 11, 1993:
357. Respect for the Speaker
When a Voter refers to the Nomic Speaker, or any other Speaker,
that
Voter must use one of the following adjectives in conjuction with the
Speaker:
Admirable, Amazing, August, Astonishing, Astounding, Beloved,
Benevolent, Brilliant, Celebrated, Circumcised, Circumspect,
Cogetative, Competant, Consummate, Courteous, Deserving, Devoted,
Diligent, Distinguished, Divine, Effulgent, Elevated, Eminent,
Excellent, Exceptional, Extraordinary, Exalted, Fabulous, Famed,
Fine,
Foremost, Generous, Glorious, Gracious, Grand, Great, Hallowed, High,
Holy, Honored, Illustrious, Impartial, Impressive, Incredible,
Industrious, Influential, Judicious, Just, Kind, Kosher, Kindred,
Lofty, Magnificent, Majestic, Magnanimous, Marvelous, Mighty, Neat,
Noble, Omnilaborant, Outstanding, Overworked, Persuasive, Pensive,
Phenominal, Pious, Prime, Qualified, Quintessential, Regal, Reknown,
Remarkable, Respected, Revered, Solicitous, Spectacular, Splendid,
Superb, Superior, Transcendant, Trustful, Unparalleled, Upright,
Unusual, Venerated, Vigilent, Virile, Virtuous, Watchful, Wonderful,
Worshipped, Xenophilic, Zealous, or any combination of the
preceeding.
Any Voter not following this directive shall lose 1 point per
reference to the Great and Virtuous Speaker which does not use one of
the above words.
--
Trigon
