On Mon, 2019-02-04 at 23:09 +0000, ais...@alumni.bham.ac.uk wrote: > On Mon, 2019-02-04 at 23:05 +0000, David Seeber wrote: > > Actually it was a good friend of mine who is a sort of board game > > nerd. He has a little nomic which he plays with a few friends and > > invited me to join in. Whilst checking out what nomics actually > > are, > > I found the Wikipedia page, which talks about Agora being the > > biggest > > nomic still running. And I thought, Hey... Why not? > > Theory: the fact that Agora and BlogNomic are by far the longest- > lasting nomics is connected to the fact that they're the only ones > referenced from Wikipedia. (That said, the causality may be reversed, > i.e. they may have been referenced from Wikipedia due to being long- > lived rather than vice versa.)
Further theory after rereading the Wikipedia article: most nomics last a sufficiently short time that they're dead before they're mentioned, so only long-time active nomics get a chance at being linked in a non- defunct state. (There are plenty of nomics mentioned but they're nearly all dead, so I didn't mentally count them.) -- ais523
