Arguments against "kill_minions_00" in its current form

[James Cook]

There his been a proposal to decrease my score for allegedly violating the metarules.  I would like to present a few points in my defense, in the spirit of debating Nomic proposals.

Background: I created two extra accounts, called falsifian_minion_0 and falsifian_minion_1, and used them to pass two proposals.

- First, the metarules are implicit rather than explicit, as far as I can tell.  That means the metarules can be nothing other than whatever a reasonable person would take them to be.  Keep in mind that I am a stranger to this group, and found the game through the web.*

- Reasonably, I would think the metarules would say things like "don't register multiple accounts to create an advantage for yourself in the game".

- I registered my first extra account for the sole purpose of fixing a glaring error on the landing page of the game, which could have turned potential users away: the dates were reported wrong on the "Help" and "News" pages.  I registered my second extra account only because I lost my password for the first.

- I made it completely obvious that the extra accounts were mine.  I could have made up a name, or even convinced a real person to act on my behalf.  Now, which is worse: convincing a friend to join the game just to sneakily pass my proposals, or obviously adding a fake account just to fix the home page?  Ask yourself, which should the metarules prevent?

For the above reasons, I will vote AGAINST proposal "kill_minions_00" unless it is amended so as to not dock any points.

James

* The closest thing to an explicit statement of the metarules that I could find is here: https://groups.google.com/d/topic/ecmanomic/TSjUMkJHArE/discussion and I found that link while composing this post.

[James Cook]

As additional background I should note that at the time, no other players were active, so I had no other way to fix the landing page and make the game more appealing to potential new users.

[Adam Bliss]

Oops, the metarules used to be listed front and center on the google
groups homepage, but I see that they are gone now. I will try to
restore them somehow.

In light of this, I will amend the proposal to remove the point adjustment :)

--abliss
PS: thanks for scooping me on the patchmaker fix, I swear I was *just
about* to get to it though :)

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[James Cook]

Thanks!