On 6/7/2020 8:45 AM, Rebecca via agora-discussion wrote: >> How about we just write it out? "Karma is an integer value assigned to > persons and Agora and tracked by the Herald in eir weekly report, which > self-ratifies. Karma defaults to zero." > Compare to current rules text "Karma is a person switch tracked by the > Herald in eir Weekly Report. Karma is an Integer switch. Agora also has an > instance of the Karma switch." > > the current text is almost exactly the same length >
Need to add: - don't need to report default values (otherwise the report would be literally every person in existence); - If a person's Karma would otherwise fail to have an integer value...(paragraph) - if an action or set of actions would cause a person's karma to become indeterminate...(paragraph) Then you realize that, once you've added those bits, it's useful text for several different types of values, so you generalize it and give it a generic name, and extend the class, and you end up with "voting strength is karma for proposals" or some other twisted metaphor... https://xkcd.com/927/
