On Thu, Jan 28, 2021 at 10:49:54PM +0100, Cuddle Beam via agora-official wrote: > [image: imagen.png] > > Hello, I’m the Speaker, that means I should Speak. Welcome to my SPEAK SH-, > I mean, TALK SHOW: THE SPEAKER SHOW. Woooo!
Thanks Cuddlebeam and Aris, this is great. > *Aris:* I discovered it on Wikipedia, as most Agorans do. The story is a > little bit more interesting than that though. I was reading through a > proceeding of Wikipedia's Arbitration Committee, which is the tribunal with > final authority to settle conduct disputes on the wiki. One of the > arbitrators mentioned that their proceedings were not a nomic, that they > didn't have rules for the sake of rules. I like rules, so the idea of a > game with rules for the sake of rules sounded great to me. Once I found > Agora, I started reading through the case archives. I was really impressed > with the vast body of precedent that the game had amassed over the years. > It filled me with joy. That's what convinced me to register. My partner follows some of Wikipedia's formal proceedings, and thinks I'm silly for playing Agora. This story... does not change that, but was fun to pass on to them anyway. -- Falsifian
