I think I've mostly got the hang of this by now, but it still sounds like a great idea to me, in case other new players join and are confused by it as well.
On Wed, Sep 27, 2017 at 6:00 AM, Publius Scribonius Scholasticus < p.scribonius.scholasti...@googlemail.com> wrote: > This could be done as an opt-in thing with Agencies. > ---- > Publius Scribonius Scholasticus > p.scribonius.scholasti...@gmail.com > > > > > On Sep 26, 2017, at 10:15 PM, Owen Jacobson <o...@grimoire.ca> wrote: > > > > In light of our newer players’ issues with the groups, and my own, it > might be nice to allow players to repost obviously-misposted messages on > others’ behalves. I recognize that this is a risk-laden idea, though, so I > wanted to float it here first: > > > > * Any player CAN repost a message to the public forum, on behalf of any > person, if the message has not previously been reposted. A reposted message > takes effect as if it had been sent to the public forum by its nominal > author, not by the player reposting it. > > One way to handle this would be to make it take effective 48 hours after > the repost. > > > > > * A repost is INEFFECTIVE unless the message is clearly identified as a > repost, clearly identifies a single, specific author of the original > message, and reproduces, in full and without modification, a > publicly-available document [this is meant to mean “a-d emails, but not > private emails]" or message that is being reposted. > > Why not use "a document available on a discussion forum" as opposed to > "publicly-available", the former is more clear and precise and I already > keep a list of it as Registrar. > > > > > * A repost is further INEFFECTIVE if the original author of the document > would not reasonably become aware of the repost in a timely fashion. > > > > * If the original author of a document objects, by public message, in a > timely fashion, to a repost, the objection immediately ratifies game state > such that the message was never sent. > > > > I think this is a bit of a mousetrap hazard, so please, rip it apart. > I’d love to be able to help ATMunn and other new players sort out minor > posting issues, but I don’t want to create the world’s most open-ended > Agency. > > > > -o > > > >
