On 10/26/19 8:53 PM, Gaelan Steele wrote:
TL;DR: No “officeholders”; anyone can do a job if it hasn’t been done yet that
{week,month}. They get paid for doing so, and get paid more if they’ve been
doing it consistently or if it’s been overdue for a while.
This is an interesting idea - but I think it might disincentivize
publishing preliminary information and having public utilities for
generating reports. Right now, I have some public code that formats
assessments; if another player could take that code and publish an
assessment, then someone else can just use the work I've put in to get a
reward. This means it's harmful for people to publish code, so some
people might just keep it a secret, which hurts both future historical
research and the community as a whole.
Of course, I'm not doing the work of Assessor solely because I get a few
coins for it, but I do worry that this idea might move incentives in the
wrong direction.
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Jason Cobb
