So the fact that yesterday was my birthday means nothing? On March 14, 2023 3:00:40 PM GMT-03:00, nix via agora-discussion <agora-discussion@agoranomic.org> wrote: >On 3/14/23 12:24, juan via agora-discussion wrote: >> Just checking the rules, and I can't find any mention of gifting during >> birthdays. Also, I just noticed the Herald is obliged to acknowledge >> birthdays. Has that always been so? Seems unncessary. > >So this is a bit of (recent) historical cruft. When we had coins, R2585 >authorized each player to grant the birthday person coins by announcement. >That was replaced with R2657's birthday score increase, which itself started >as something the Herald does (and is now something the recipient does). > >Having the Herald responsible for recognizing birthdays is because people are >historically bad at keeping track of even eir own, and so it's nice to >centralize the responsibility, especially when that would lead to everyone >gifting coins. > >Clearly the situation has changed enough that R2585's title (Birthday Gifts) >doesn't make sense anymore, but we just never retitled it. > >-- >nix >Prime Minister, Herald, Collector >
-- Juan
