Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Alternate contestmaster-switching mechanisms

2008-10-13 Thread Ben Caplan
On Monday 13 October 2008 01:01:44 pm comex wrote: > On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 1:55 PM, Ian Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > R2136 used to include the requirement that a contest be "fair to > > all contestants" in order to be a contest > > Among the problems with that was that a contest which ce

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Alternate contestmaster-switching mechanisms

2008-10-13 Thread Ian Kelly
On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 12:20 PM, Ben Caplan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Isn't Without 3 Objections, in effect, a pragmatic requirement to be > fair? Yes, that was the reasoning behind the current mechanism. -root

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Alternate contestmaster-switching mechanisms

2008-10-13 Thread comex
On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 1:55 PM, Ian Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > R2136 used to include the requirement that a contest be "fair to all > contestants" in order to be a contest Among the problems with that was that a contest which ceased to be fair automatically ceased to be a contest, perhaps

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Alternate contestmaster-switching mechanisms

2008-10-13 Thread Ian Kelly
On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 11:27 AM, Taral <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 10:14 AM, ais523 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Three players create a contract that allows any of its parties to flip >> its contestmaster by announcement. They take turns as contestmaster from >> week to w

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Alternate contestmaster-switching mechanisms

2008-10-13 Thread Ben Caplan
On Monday 13 October 2008 12:27:27 pm Taral wrote: > Isn't it a rule that anyone can join a contest and that contest > must award points "fairly"? I don't think so. There might be a proposal coming up to that effect.

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Alternate contestmaster-switching mechanisms

2008-10-13 Thread Taral
On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 10:14 AM, ais523 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Three players create a contract that allows any of its parties to flip > its contestmaster by announcement. They take turns as contestmaster from > week to week: player A awards 15 points to player B, then flips the > contestmast

DIS: Re: BUS: Alternate contestmaster-switching mechanisms

2008-10-13 Thread ais523
On Sun, 2008-10-12 at 12:05 -0500, Ben Caplan wrote: > I retract that proposal, and submit the following AI=1, II=1, > entitled "Creative contest switching v.2": This is an incredibly bad idea. Goethe deregistered over root's equity contest scam (which I was involved in); this would make the scam

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Alternate contestmaster-switching mechanisms

2008-10-13 Thread ais523
On Mon, 2008-10-13 at 12:04 -0500, Ben Caplan wrote: > On Monday 13 October 2008 11:50:00 am ais523 wrote: > > On Sun, 2008-10-12 at 12:05 -0500, Ben Caplan wrote: > > > I retract that proposal, and submit the following AI=1, II=1, > > > entitled "Creative contest switching v.2": > > > > This is an

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Alternate contestmaster-switching mechanisms

2008-10-13 Thread Ben Caplan
On Monday 13 October 2008 11:50:00 am ais523 wrote: > On Sun, 2008-10-12 at 12:05 -0500, Ben Caplan wrote: > > I retract that proposal, and submit the following AI=1, II=1, > > entitled "Creative contest switching v.2": > > This is an incredibly bad idea. Goethe deregistered over root's > equity co

DIS: Re: BUS: Alternate contestmaster-switching mechanisms

2008-10-11 Thread Ed Murphy
Pavitra wrote: > I submit a proposal, AI=1, II=1, "Creative contest switching": > { > Amend rule 2136 (Contests) by replacing the text: > > Any player CAN flip the contestmaster of a public contract > without 3 objections, except if doing so would cause a player to > be contestm