On Thu, Jul 2, 2015 at 11:15 AM, Kerim Aydin <ke...@u.washington.edu> wrote: > > A more constructive comment is: I think the balance is off here a bit. > The timescale between "bad Tailor" (a Tailor who doesn't hand out awards) > and election correction seems a bit off to me, and as it is there's no > incentive at all for the Tailor to be "good". >
Not directly, but in the broader political game, perhaps. Suppose that a player runs for Tailor on a campaign promising ribbons for everyone who votes for them, and in that order. My behaviour here is going to depend on who it is. If it's ais523, I'm voting for em because I know it virtually ensures my Ribbon. I've never known em to renege on any direct commitment, binding or not, and I would defend his holding the office until he awarded me the Ribbon. Conversely, if it was a completely new player, I might look on it with skepticism. I think that Agora could use more opportunities to feel out the politics. It's also worth considering the fact that the timeline for Ribbons is very long. If there's even a few months where things go a bit wonky, that's not a concern to me. Also, no matter how long it takes, it's kind of boring as an endgame. > Eventually, no matter how well a person does, it comes down to "will > the Tailor bless my win, or not?" > I would be very surprised if the endgame was not, reasonably consistently, still the Indigo Ribbon, or perhaps the White. > I agree there may be more to this than I'm seeing (maybe it should just > be translated as "hold the office of Tailor at least once") and there's > plenty of time to adjust it if it's an obstacle. > > Here's a simple idea correction: the Tailor MUST award one Ribbon a > month, not necessarily grey (that sounds like the right time scale). > That means e can get out of awarding a grey ribbon by spotting an > award someone has earned but not claimed (that's a good public service > to encourage anyway), but if e doesn't find one, e must award a grey or > face a deputization threat. > > -G. This means that more ribbons go out in slumps (i.e. all the time). That seems bad. In entirely unrelated news, I initiate an election for Herald. -scshunt
