On 5/11/2020 7:49 AM, Kerim Aydin wrote: > On 5/11/2020 7:28 AM, nch wrote: >> I'm going to re-arrange CB's original message a little bit because I think >> it >> makes more sense to respond to those points in that order. >> >> On Monday, May 11, 2020 3:55:24 AM CDT Cuddle Beam via agora-discussion >> wrote: >>> To FURTHER show how a well-documented history is a good idea, it's NOT ONLY >>> the history per se which is valuable, having it readily available makes >>> research BASED on analysis of that history possible. For instance, the >>> History of Victories, which has managed to apply a taxonomy to the way that >>> the game is played by digging up the whole past of Blognomic: >>> https://wiki.blognomic.com/index.php?title=History_of_victories >> >> Minor note: we do keep a history of victories with categories, it's in the >> scroll of Agora. It does lack links (partly because they'd make the document >> harder to read since we don't use a hypertext format). There's no reason we >> couldn't have a 'research version' of this with the links though. > > It's not just links it lacks, it lacks any notion of dates or reasons > (with the minor exception of Badges). The Scroll is terribly documented > and several times I've tried to go back and even put a year on some of > those titles and can't (in some cases, I can't narrow it down to within a > few years even because we re-use win types.). The scroll says I won by > Proposal (x2) but I couldn't even give you which decade these happened in.
Also - we didn't used to track categories of victories even. We started doing that in 2006-2007, and all the wins before that were "reconstructed from communal memory" (very imperfectly) around that time, which is why the Scroll has so many "unspecified" wins. -G.
