I love that the talk page on that Wikipedia article has an argument about how to define a nomic.
-twg ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ On Monday, February 4, 2019 11:16 PM, ais...@alumni.bham.ac.uk <ais...@alumni.bham.ac.uk> wrote: > 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
