Oblivious

[packbat]

A number of you are probably aware of the Nomic I am associated with - nomicide. It's in that irritating between-games idle stage right now, the one where we should be trying to make new rulesets but we're just off doing our own stuff, but it's been a pretty successful Nomic while it's going, and I'm pretty proud to be involved in it. (Incidentally, if you ever want me to brag, ask me how I won the first game. It was brilliant.)

Anyway, I just opened a poll to vote for the Head of the Constitutional Convention (pretentious, eh?) where all the players could vote for any player to become Head. Being a player, I of course immediately voted myself for the players I thought would be good.

The next day, the second vote had come in (I told you it was idle), and I opened the post to see who was winning. A moment later, noticing I had two votes in the poll, I realized the horrible fact: I had voted for myself!

Comments

Man, your inbox today must be full of nothing but comments from me.

[the-zaniak.livejournal.com]

I have a question:

Just clarify for me - you just repenalised all the people who had previously broken rules (and been penalised in the first place), right? Or did you find them guilty of a new infraction of rules?

No way! One, I send all the LJ stuff to a separate box, and two, active_apathy made one comment too!

[packbat.livejournal.com]

The latter - they'd been penalized for breaking various rules before, but not until I made my play had they been penalized for breaking Rule 101. The effect was to repenalize them for rules they'd already paid for breaking, but, in fact, they had extra rules violations they hadn't been caught for.