Re: DIS: watcher status?

2016-08-15 Thread David Nicol
On Mon, Aug 15, 2016 at 10:31 AM, Kerim Aydin wrote: > > > On Sun, 14 Aug 2016, Ørjan Johansen wrote: >> On Sun, 14 Aug 2016, David Nicol wrote: >> >> > Daydreaming here about trying to leverage my involvement with this >> > game (since its inception!) into a non-frivolous claim that I am "a >> >

Re: DIS: watcher status?

2016-08-15 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Tue, 16 Aug 2016, Ørjan Johansen wrote: > On Mon, 15 Aug 2016, Kerim Aydin wrote: > > On Sun, 14 Aug 2016, Ørjan Johansen wrote: > > > > Elder Lurker is in fact a held and official Patent Title. > > > > Probably a title Chuck should get after chiming in on Fri :_) > > *Feels slightly miffed

Re: DIS: watcher status?

2016-08-15 Thread Ørjan Johansen
On Mon, 15 Aug 2016, Kerim Aydin wrote: On Sun, 14 Aug 2016, Ørjan Johansen wrote: Elder Lurker is in fact a held and official Patent Title. Probably a title Chuck should get after chiming in on Fri :_) *Feels slightly miffed* Greetings, Ørjan.

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Scam relief valve

2016-08-15 Thread ais523
On Mon, 2016-08-15 at 12:07 -0700, Kerim Aydin wrote: > > On Mon, 15 Aug 2016, ais523 wrote: > > (I leave it to the rest of Agora to guess whether this proposal is a > > simple incremental improvement to the ruleset, or a veiled threat.) > > I consider every one of your proposals to be a veiled t

DIS: Re: BUS: Scam relief valve

2016-08-15 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Mon, 15 Aug 2016, ais523 wrote: > I wouldn't be opposed to an s/player/person/ here, but currently > winning is only defined for players (thus you'd have to change more > rules). Actually I'm not so sure. Rule 2449 states what happens when a Player wins the game, but *doesn't* state what hap

DIS: Re: BUS: Scam relief valve

2016-08-15 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Mon, 15 Aug 2016, ais523 wrote: > (I leave it to the rest of Agora to guess whether this proposal is a > simple incremental improvement to the ruleset, or a veiled threat.) I consider every one of your proposals to be a veiled threat.

Re: DIS: Patent Titles: to define or not define?

2016-08-15 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Mon, 15 Aug 2016, nichdel wrote: > I also think that we don't want to let the conditions for historied (as > in multiple winners) titles slip in meaning too much. Interesting to mention "winners" in this regard; the categories of Champion in the Herald's Report are about 50-75% informal, reco

Re: DIS: Patent Titles: to define or not define?

2016-08-15 Thread nichdel
On 08/15/2016 11:17 AM, Kerim Aydin wrote: > > Now, of course, we've got the "generic" method by which any title > (including the above) can be awarded with the right level of Support. > This came about, in part, with the start of the trend (~2004?) to award > arbitrary Patent Titles via scam prop

DIS: Patent Titles: to define or not define?

2016-08-15 Thread Kerim Aydin
In the past, we've had specified Patent Titles in the Rules that could be earned through various mechanisms in the now-repealed Rule 1922. Examples: Bard (earned if you displayed online poetry or other "performance" level creative wit). Filthy Bureaucrat (to be awarded to anyone who is simu

Re: DIS: watcher status?

2016-08-15 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Sun, 14 Aug 2016, Ørjan Johansen wrote: > On Sun, 14 Aug 2016, David Nicol wrote: > > > Daydreaming here about trying to leverage my involvement with this > > game (since its inception!) into a non-frivolous claim that I am "a > > member in good standing" of something. Am I still a registered