On Thu, 12 Jun 2008, Ben Caplan wrote:
> Now, to discourage private collaboration ("I'll vote FOR, you vote
> AGAINST.")Instead of discouraging, how about setting up a game where it's beneficial to lie and backstab during private negotiations, Diplomacy-style (eg. points that make backstabs worthwhile, and a rule that "any contract about such collaboration is null and void"). I ran a card-trading contest here a few years back based on this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haggle_%28game%29 that worked ok. Or, we could bring back mafia, that was nice. -Goethe
