On Sun, Nov 3, 2019 at 12:44 AM Gaelan Steele <g...@canishe.com> wrote:
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> I am considering, as part of my plotting-to-become-rulekeepor work, some sort
> of automatic proposal generator (basically, some sort of web-based interface
> for editing the ruleset, get changes dumped into a human-readable proposal).
> Obviously something like that catching on would benefit me (because I can
> parse the proposals back into a set of changes with no human intervention),
> but could also be convenient for you. To be clear, if this ever happens, it
> wouldn’t be coming for another few weeks at least.
That would be amazing! Most of the stuff in my style guide should be
pretty easy to add in to a generator like that. I'm not much of a
programmer, but I'd be happy to help however I can (testing and
comments, for instance).
> Also, while we’re at it, I’ve long campaigned for a list somewhere of common
> mistakes that show up in lots of proposals. (Extremely common: CAN/MAY
> confusion, lack of “by announcement,” switches dumped on the {registrar,
> prime minister, fat controllor, proposal author}.) In the past I’ve proposed
> this a time or two as a regulation with some sort of mechanism for ensuring
> players at least claim they checked it before submitting proposals, but maybe
> it’d work as just an unofficial document (or an official one that players
> only SHOULD read).
Hmm, that could work. I could add a section on that to my style guide,
right now it's just formatting stuff.
-Aris
-Aris
