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Core Rules
Ruleset and Gamestate
This is the Ruleset for BlogNomic; all Tesserers shall obey it. Section One consists of the "core rules" of BlogNomic, covering basic proposal mechanics; Section Two contains the rules of the current dynasty; Section Three contains rules which apply in special cases; and Section Four contains the appendix, which exists solely to clarify the remainder of the ruleset.
The Ruleset and Gamestate can only be altered in manners specified by the Ruleset.
Tesserers may correct obvious spelling and typographical mistakes in the Ruleset and their own Pending Proposals at any time, including replacing Spivak and gender-specific pronouns with the singular "they".
If the Ruleset does not properly reflect all legal changes that have been made to it, any Tesserer may update it to do so.
Any human may apply to join BlogNomic (if they are not already a Tesserer) by registering at http://blognomic.com via the Register link in the sidebar, and then making a post making clear their wish to be a Tesserer. An Admin shall add them to the roster in the sidebar and the GNDT, at which moment they become a Tesserer.
A Tesserer may cease to be a Tesserer at any time by posting an entry to the BlogNomic weblog requesting such an action. A human who has ceased to be a Tesserer in this way may not become a Tesserer again within the following two weeks. A Tesserer may only change their name as a result of a proposal approving the change.
Some Tesserers are Admins, responsible for updating the site and the Ruleset, and are signified as such in the sidebar. Tesserers who wish to become Admins may sign up with a username for the Ruleset Wiki, and submit a Proposal to make themselves Admins. Existing Admins may be removed from their posts by Proposal, CfJ, or voluntary resignation. New admins shall be given the GNDT configuration password when they become admins.
Idle Tesserers
Some Tesserers are Idle, and shall be marked as such in the sidebar. For the purposes of all Gamestate and the Ruleset, excluding Rules "Ruleset and Gamestate", "Tesserers", "Dynasties", "Fair Play" and any of those Rules' subrules, Idle Tesserers are not counted as Tesserers.
If a Proposal contains a provision that targets a specifically named Idle Tesserer, then that Idle Tesserer is considered to be Unidle solely for the purposes of enacting that specific provision
When a Tesserer is unidled, if they went Idle in the same dynasty, their personal gamestate retains the last legally endowed values it had, if they are still valid. Otherwise (including if a value is invalid, does not exist, or the Tesserer Idled in a different dynasty), the Tesserer is given the default value for new Tesserer, if such a value exists.
An Admin may render a Tesserer Idle if that Tesserer has asked to become Idle in an entry or comment from the past four days, or if that Tesserer has not posted an entry or comment in the last seven days. In the latter case, the Admin must announce the idling in a blog post. Admins may render themselves Idle at any time, but should announce it in a post or comment when they do so. An Admin may Unidle a Tesserer if that Tesserer has asked to become Unidle in an entry or comment from the past four days, and Idle Admins may Unidle themselves at any time, unless the Tesserer who would be Unidled asked to become (or rendered themselves) Idle within the previous four days, and within the current dynasty.
Admins who are unidling themselves should, in their first vote following each unidling, highlight their changed idle status and any changes to quorum to have come about as a result of it.
BlogNomic is divided into a number of Dynasties. Each Dynasty may be headed by a single Tesserer, known as the Master. If there is no Master, the Dynasty is a Metadynasty.
Votable Matters
A Votable Matter is a post which Tesserers may cast Votes on, such as a Proposal, a Call for Judgement or a Declaration of Victory.
Each Tesserer may cast one Vote on a Votable Matter by making a comment to the Official Post that comprises that Votable Matter using a voting icon of FOR, AGAINST, or DEFERENTIAL. Additional voting icons may be permitted in some cases by other rules. A valid Vote is, except when otherwise specified, a Vote of FOR or AGAINST. A Tesserer's Vote on a Votable Matter is the last valid voting icon that they have used in any comment on that Votable Matter. Additionally, if the author of a Votable Matter has not used a valid voting icon in a comment to the post, then the author's Vote is FOR. A non-Tesserer never has a Vote, even if they were a Tesserer previously and had cast a valid Vote.
If a Tesserer other than the Master casts a vote of DEFERENTIAL, then the Vote of DEFERENTIAL is an indication of confidence in the Master. When the Master has a valid Vote other than VETO on a Votable Matter, then all votes of DEFERENTIAL on that Votable Matter are instead considered to be valid and the same as the Master's Vote for the purposes of other rules unless otherwise specified.
A Votable Matter is Popular if any of the following are true:
- It has a number of FOR Votes that exceed or equal Quorum.
- It has been open for voting for at least 48 hours, it has more than 1 valid Vote cast on it, and more valid Votes cast on it are FOR than are AGAINST.
A Votable Matter is Unpopular if any of the following are true:
- The number of Tesserers who are not voting AGAINST it is less than Quorum.
- It has been open for voting for at least 48 hours is not Popular.
Enacting and Failing
Votable Matters can either be Pending, Enacted, or Failed. When a Votable Matter is first put forward, it is considered Pending.
Whenever an Admin resolves a Votable Matter, they must also mark their name, and report the final tally of Votes (or the fact that it was self-killed or vetoed). Comments cannot be made on Enacted or Failed Votable Matters.
This rule cannot be overruled by Dynastic Rules in its application to Calls for Judgement or Declarations of Victory.
Any Tesserer may submit a Proposal to change the Ruleset or Gamestate, by posting an entry in the "Proposal" category that describes those changes (unless the Tesserer already has 2 Proposals pending, or has already made 3 Proposals that day).
Special Proposal Voting
When a Tesserer casts a vote AGAINST their own Proposal (which is not in the form of a DEFERENTIAL vote), this renders the Proposal Self-Killed, even if the author later changes their Vote. The Master may use VETO as a voting icon to cast a Vote on a proposal; when the Master casts a vote of VETO on a Proposal, this renders the Proposal Vetoed, even if the Master later changes their Vote.
Resolution of Proposals
The oldest Pending Proposal may be Enacted by any Admin (by updating the Ruleset and/or Gamestate to include the specified effects of that Proposal, and then setting that Proposal's status to Enacted) if all of the following are true:
- It is Popular.
- It has been open for voting for at least 12 hours.
- It has not been Vetoed or Self-Killed.
The oldest Pending Proposal may be Failed by any Admin, if any of the following are true:
- It is Unpopular.
- It has been Vetoed or Self-Killed.
If a proposal somehow ends up being pending for more than 7 days, it is ignored for the purpose of calculating the oldest pending proposal, and can be failed by any Admin.
Calls for Judgement
If two or more Tesserers actively disagree as to the interpretation of the Ruleset, or if a Tesserer feels that an aspect of the game needs urgent attention, then any Tesserer may raise a Call for Judgement (abbreviated CfJ) by posting an entry in the "Call for Judgement" category.
A Pending CfJ may be Enacted by any Admin if all of the following are ture:
- It is Popular.
A Pending CfJ may be Failed by any Admin if any of the following are true:
- It is Unpopular.
- It specifies neither changes to the Gamestate or Ruleset nor corrections to any gamestate tracking entities.
When a CfJ is Enacted, the Admin Enacting it shall update the Gamestate and Ruleset, and correct the GNDT and other gamestate tracking entities, as specified in the CFJ.
This Rule may not be overruled by Dynastic Rules.
Victory and Ascension
If a Tesserer (other than the Master) believes that they have achieved victory in the current Dynasty, they may make a post to the Blognomic weblog in the Declaration of Victory category, detailing this.
Upon doing so, the game immediately goes into Hiatus, if it hasn't already. During this time, the only game actions that may be taken are those covered by Rules "Tesserers", "Votable Matters", "Calls for Judgement", "Gamestate Tracking" and "Victory and Ascension".
Every Tesserer may cast Votes on that DoV to indicate agreement or disagreement with the proposition that the poster has achieved victory in the current Dynasty.
A Pending DoV may be Enacted by any Admin if any of the following is true:
- It is Popular, it has been open for at least 12 hours, and either the Master has Voted FOR it or it has no AGAINST Votes.
- It is Popular, and it has been open for at least 24 hours.
A Pending DoV may be Failed by any Admin if any of the following are true:
- It is Unpopular, and it has been open for at least 12 hours.
When a DoV fails and there are no pending DoVs, Hiatus ends.
When a DoV is enacted, all other pending DoVs are failed, and a new Dynasty begins with the Tesserer who made the DoV as its Master. That Tesserer may pass this role to another Tesserer at this point by making a post to that effect, if they wish. The Hiatus continues until the new Master makes an Ascension Address by posting an entry in the "Ascension Address" category - this should specify the Master's chosen theme for the new Dynasty, and may optionally specify that the terms Tesserer and Master will be replaced with theme-specific terms throughout the entire ruleset, and/or a number of dynastic rules to keep. Upon posting such an Ascension Address, the Ruleset is updated to reflect any changed terms, and any dynastic rules which were not listed to be kept are repealed.
A DoV may not be started in the period between an enacted DoV and that DoV's Ascension Address. When a DoV is failed, if it had at least one AGAINST vote, the Tesserer who posted it cannot make another DoV until after 120 hours (5 days) have passed since the time their DoV was failed.
This rule cannot be overruled by Dynastic Rules as it relates to Declarations of Victory, but can be overruled in other matters.
Fair Play
The following are BlogNomic's rules of fair play. If any of these rules are found to have been broken, or if a Tesserer's behaviour or actions are otherwise deemed unacceptable (socially or otherwise), a proposal or CfJ may be made to reprimand or punish the perpetrator or, in cases of extreme or repeated violations, remove them from the game and bar them from rejoining.
- A single person should not control more than one non-Idle Tesserer within BlogNomic, and should announce publicly if they control both a non-Idle Tesserer and any Idle Tesserers.
- A Tesserer should not "spam" the BlogNomic blog. What counts as spamming is subjective, but would typically include posting more than ten blog entries in a day, more than ten blog comments in a row, or posting a blog entry of more than 1000 words.
- A Tesserer should not deliberately exploit bugs or unexpected behaviours in the software running the game (ExpressionEngine, MediaWiki or the GNDT).
- A Tesserer should not edit their own blog comments once posted, nor those of any other Tesserer.
- A Tesserer should not edit the "Entry Date" field of a blog post.
- A Tesserer should not make a DoV primarily to delay the game by putting it into Hiatus.
- A Tesserer should not do any action meant to make the game unplayable (for example, changing multiple keywords to the same word in an ascension address).
- A Tesserer should not roll dice in the GNDT that are clearly associated with a particular action in the Ruleset, but with the intention to not use these rolled values to the best of their ability to resolve that action.
Dynastic Rules
Every Tesserer has a value of "Power" tracked in the GNDT, which defaults to 0. A Tesser that has joined or unidled and has not unidle previously this dynasty gains power equal to ([the sum of all other Tessers' power] + [2 * the number of shards])/[the number of Tessers - 1]. As a weekly communal action, a Tesserer may add 5 power to each Tesserer.
Anytime a Tesserer publishes a Story Post which is not a Combo, they may, in the title, put the following tag: [Tessered X], where X is a number less than or equal to their power. Any actions described in such a post will not be performed: instead, the text of the post will be added to a named "Tessers" of a Wiki page named "The Tesseract". After X days have passed the action(s) must be performed following the rules of an Atomic Action, and the text removed form the wiki page. If the actions are not performed within 48 hours after X days have passed, the Instability of the Tesseract increases by X. A Tesserer may only have two such posts at a time.
The sum of the contents of a story post with the [Tessered X] tag is called a "Tessered Act".
Also tracked on the Wiki page the Tesseract is a value call "Power Level" which starts a 0. Every time a post with the tag [Tessered X] is posted, the Power Level goes up by X.
The Tesseract has an Instability, which starts at 0, tracked on its wiki page. If the instability of the Tesseract rises above 5, all shards with the same affinity as the orientation of the Tesseract are removed from their owners and considered "Destroyed". The instability of the tesseract is then set to 0. The orientation of the tesseract is set as determined by a DICE8 roll in the GNDT, where 1 is North, 2 is South, 3 is East, 4 is West, 5 is Up, 6 is Down, 7 is Ana, and 8 is Kata.
Each Tesser has an Affinity (or none), which can be one of the following:
- Water: A Water Tesser cannot make proposals with the word "Water" in it.
- Fire: A Fire Tesser cannot make proposals with the word "Fire" in it.
- Nature: A Nature Tesser cannot make proposals with the word "Nature" in it.
- Void: A Void Tesser cannot make proposals with the word "Void" in it.
A Tesser's Affinity is tracked in the GNDT, defaults to "none", and if a Tesser hasn't done so in this dynasty, they can change their Affinity from none to a different one.
Each Tesser has an amount of Shards, which are a magically created resource. Shards have an affinity, which is a Tesser Affinity. Each Tesser's Shards are tracked in the GNDT by a capital letter of their affinity (FFWN for 2 Fire shards, 1 Water shards and 1 Nature Shard, for example). A Tesser can hold as many shards as they have Power. A Tesser can pay 3 Power to make a Shard of their Affinity. Tessers can freely give their Shards to other Tessers if that Tesser would be able to hold them. Tessers can freely discard their own Shards.
Tesserers can legally make proposals with their alignment with them, however, they have stricter requirements. They may pass only if the number of votes against equals zero.
"Tesser" and "Tesserer" are synonyms.
A Tesser that has one of each type of shard may spend one power to commune with the Tesseract.
The Tesseract has 8 cells, named after the direction they initially are facing : North, South, East, West, Up, Down, Ana, Kata.
The Tesseract has an Orientation, tracked on its wiki page, that corresponds to the name of the cell it is resting on. The initial Orientation of the Tesseract is Down.
Each pair of opposing cells has an associated Affinity:
- Water: North-South
- Fire: East-West
- Nature: Up-Down
- Void: Ana-Kata
A Tesserer may spend a Shard to change the orienation of the Tesseract to one that has the same affinity as the Shard. This action is called "rotating" the Tesseract.
The following comes from fragments (believed to be Folio 2) from The Fourth Orthocodex of G. Ray, Master Emeritus in Aeternum:
Each pair of different affinities has its own Face Action; each with a shorthand Symbol:
- Nature/Fire: Radiance (☀)
- Nature/Water: Abundance (♾)
- Water/Fire: Transition (♻)
- Water/Void: Carving (❖) [*, +]
- Fire/Void: Destruction (✖) [*]
- Nature/Void: Opposition (◑) [*]
[+] see Folio 7 for discussion on naming of this Face Action.
[*] see Folio 9 for derivation of the symbology for these Face Actions.
The Fourth Orthocodex may be cited in brief as 'R4'. Text from R4 is not considered to be rules that Tesserers obey, unless otherwise specified.
This footnote is considered by scholars to come from the Octocodex written by O. Sedecim, Second Corner. This is one of the few remaining fragments after O. Sedecim accidentally traveled through Interim. The following footnote is considered ruletext.
A Tesser can perform Face Action by having the affinities that correspond to that Face Action participating and spending power equal to the number of affinities of the Face Action which don't match the Tessers' affinity. Participating affinities are the affinities of any Tessers that help in that action as well as the affinities of shards that participating Tessers possess; in case two or more Tessers perform a Face Action, they both pay this cost calculated with their own affinity.
The Octocodex may be cited in brief as 'O8'. Text from O8 is not considered to be rules that Tesserers obey, unless otherwise specified.
The following letter draft is suspected to be made by M. Opus, Archphilosopher Primo of the New Order and is considered ruletext:
Gee-whiz, Seddy, things have been crazy lately huh? Man. I don't know how I did this, but there's like crazy meta-meta-metaphysical arcanopotential in the loopgrinder of sizzleslash. Yeah, I know, crazy. Now, I'm not entirely sure this will work for you all the time (it has like, eh, 10% success rate?), but I'll let you all know just in case you want to try pulling it off.
If you've got like, eight of the same kind of shard, which isn't of the kind you're attuned to - you know, your affinity - you can use any spell. Any spell. Yep. But you've got to lose all of them in the process, but hey, if it works, it works. Oh, and if you fail, your Power kind of becomes, well. Null. Zero. Nada. I guess you can figure out from that why I'm retiring.So, how are the children? Last I heard, little *smudge* -s already tessering his fir- *smudge*
The rest of the letter has been lost to the ages.
A Tesserer may "Boost" the Tesseract by paying 2 power. This reduces the amount of power than must be paid in each unfullfilled Tessered Act by 1. The amount of power a Tessered Act's cost is reduced by is tracked on The Tesseract wiki page.
By spending the cost in shards in brackets (noted here in Affinity initials, just like how they're recorded in the GNDT, with an 'A' standing for any shard), you can perform the following spells:
- [FWNV] Albedo: Gain 3 shards of affinities of your choice.
- [FWNV] Nigredo: Destroy 3 shards of your choice.
- [V] Null and Void: Remove one tessered act of your choice from the list of tessered acts on the wiki page.
- [N] Growth: Add one to the boost of any and all Tessered Acts on the wiki page you specify when casting this spell
- [F] Heat: Boost all tessered Acts on the Tesseract wiki page by two and add 1 the the instability of the tesseract
- [W] Eddy: change the ownership of a Tessered act to a Tesserer who is not yourself and who has less than two tessered acts. the boost of the Tessered Act is reduced by one
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- [FFFVVV] Summon Phoenix: If you have the least Power, switch your Power with that of who has the most Power.
- [NNNWWW] Summon Leviathan: If you have the most Power, all other Tessers lose a shard of your choice and you gain that shard.
Archmaster's Watch
Each Tesser is being watched by the Archmaster or not, and this is tracked in the GNDT. The Archmaster can only watch one Tesser at a time. A Tesser that is being Watched by the Archmaster cannot perform Forbidden Spells but gain 1 more Power whenever they gain Power as the Archmaster grants them extra tutelage (this doesn't affect gains provided by this rule).
A Tesser can pay 2 Power to Point to Someone and change who the Archmaster is watching to someone else other than themselves.
All Spells with the string "Summon" in them are Forbidden.
Face Actions
This is a list of Face Actions, their effects and conditions.
- Abundance: This may only be performed if the Instability is at 0. Every Tesser gains 5 power. The Tessers which participate also gain extra power equal to what they spent to perform this action. It is a daily action.
- Radiance: Make a Tessered post that uses the power of the Tesseract as the maximum X value instead of your own power.
Text in this rule can only be changed via proposals by referring to its title and the text that is changed, removed or added
Text in this rule can only be changed via proposals by referring to its title and the text that is changed, removed or added
Text in this rule can only be changed via proposals by referring to its title and the text that is changed, removed or added
Text in this rule can only be changed via proposals by referring to its title and the text that is changed, removed or added
Special Case
Special Case Rules can be active or inactive and default to active. The status of a Special Case rule is notated in the title of that rule ending in "[X]" where X is the word Active or Inactive, denoting that Rule's status. When a new dynasty is started, the Ascension Address may state any existing Special Case Rules that are set to inactive; any Special Case Rules not set in the Ascension Address become Active.
Special Case Rules that are inactive do not have an effect on the gamestate aside from existing as text in the ruleset.
Combos [Active]
Anytime that a Tesserer wants to do 5 or more actions within an hour they may choose in lieu of doing all of those actions separately, which potentially causes confusion as to what is happening, to make a "Combo" blog post that cannot be edited after posting. The gamestate may be changed to reflect the results of the Combo once all of the actions are completed.
A Combo post is a numbered list of the actions taken, the first action is #1 each subsequent number of actions is increased by one. Each action and the portion of the gamestate changed from that action are kept on their own line. An Atomic action has lettering of its steps, refer to the example and note the curly braces vs the parenthesis.
Example Combo
- 1 [action one] ([gamestate before action] -> [gamestate after action])
- 2 [action two] ([gamestate before action] -> [gamestate after action])
- 3 [atomic action] {[gamestate before atomic action]}
- 3a [first atomic substep] ([gamestate before substep] -> [gamestate after substep])
- 3b [second atomic substep] ([gamestate before substep] -> [gamestate after substep]) {[gamestate after atomic action]}
- 4 [action four] ([gamestate before action] -> [gamestate after action])
- etcetera . . .
If any actions require a die roll or other random event that is visible to the public, Tesserers must make those rolls before posting the combo with a note stating which step the roll is for and what action they are taking and the title of their Combo. Tesserers may not make multiple rolls in the GNDT for the same step. Tesserers cannot have two or more rolls in the GNDT with Combo titles that are different unless all but one of the Combo titles have been posted and include that roll.
Each action of a Combo happens in their own second, substeps of an Atomic Action happen all at the same second as the parent step. The first action happens at the time the Combo is posted.
If there is a mistake in the summary of the gamestate in a combo and that mistake doesn't make it impossible for the stated actions to have happened, the author of that combo may correct those mistakes by making a comment along the format "[# of step]: [corrected gamestate summary]".
Tags [Active]
Votable matters have zero or more tags. Tags are added by adding it to the title of a votable matter with the format "[X]" where [X] is the tag, for example "[Core] Wording Fix". Votable Matters require the [Core] tag in order to make changes to the Core Rules, and the [Appendix] tag in order to make changes to the Appendix Rules. Votable Matters other than DoVs require the [Victory] tag in order to grant victory to a Tesserer.
Atomic Actions [Active]
When a Tesserer performs an Atomic Action, they must complete all its steps; they must complete them in order; and they may not take any other action defined in the Ruleset until all such steps are complete. In addition, the Tesserer performing an Atomic Action performs its steps as quickly as they are able.
If one or more steps of an Atomic Action were done incorrectly, the Tesserer must redo the Atomic Action. In redoing an Atomic Action, the Tesserer uses any legal steps that were already completed in the illegal Atomic Action and only redoes the illegal ones.
For instance if an Atomic Action consists of rolling a die in the GNDT and then doing steps based upon it's result the Tesserer would have to reroll the die if they rolled the wrong one if the first place and any steps that depended upon the result of that die; however if all they did was take an illegal action later on, the die is still used in the redone action.
If the Atomic Action was illegal due to a die that was wrong in the GNDT (for example, rolling a 1 on a DICE6 gives that Tesserer a point and the rest do nothing and the Tesserer rolls a DICE5 in the first one) and in redoing the Atomic Action they get the same effect as before (i.e. rolling an incorrect die and getting result X but then rolling the correct die and still getting result X) then the steps that depended upon that result are valid and don't need to be redone. Steps that depend upon multiple dice which were done incorrectly must have each incorrect die have the same effect to be considered valid.
For the purposes of determining the ordering or legality of game actions the time of an Atomic Action shall be the time that it is completed. For Atomic Actions that are redone, the time of completion is the last redone step.
Dormancy [Inactive]
If there are fewer than five Tesserers, then BlogNomic is Dormant. While BlogNomic is Dormant, actions defined by dynastic rules may not be taken, and proposals may not be submitted.
Seasonal Downtime [Active]
Blognomic goes into hiatus every year on December 24th, and remains in hiatus until December 27th. During this time no game actions may be taken except those described in the rules entitled "Votable Matters," "Gamestate Tracking" and "Call for Judgement".
A keyword defined by a rule supersedes the normal English usage of the word. A keyword defined in this glossary supersedes that defined by a rule. (eg. A rule specifying "bananas are blue" cannot be overruled by posting a dictionary definition or a photo of a banana, and a rule specifying "every day is Sunday" will be overruled by the glossary entry below.)
- Can
- "is able to"
- Comment
- A blog comment published to the BlogNomic weblog at blognomic.com
- Core Proposal
- A Proposal which mandates changes that, even if conditionally, are limited to the creation, deletion, and/or amendment of core rules and/or the glossary, and/or renaming, banning, and/or the granting or removing of admin status from one or more Tesserers.
- Daily Action
- If a game action is a Daily Action, each Tesserer able to perform it may take that action once each day, but not more than once every ten hours.
- Daily Communal Action
- A Daily Communal Action is a Daily Action that can only be performed by one Tesserer per day.
- Day
- References to a "day" as an entity rather than as a duration (e.g. "Sunday", "The day after performing this action", or "August 2nd"), unless otherwise stated, refer to a day beginning at and including 00:00:00 UTC, ending when the next day begins. It can never be 2 different days at the same instant.
- Dice
- References to "YDICEX" refer to Y X-sided dice, rolled within the GNDT. To roll dice, post DICEX in the comments field of the GNDT, replacing X with the number of sides on the die you wish to roll.
- Dynastic Proposal
- A Proposal which mandates changes that, even if conditionally, are limited to the creation, deletion, and/or amendment of dynastic rules and/or gamestate defined by dynastic rules.
- Effective Vote Comment (EVC)
- A Tesserer's Effective Vote Comment with respect to a given Votable Matter means that Tesserer's Comment to that Votable Matter, if any, that contains that Tesserer's Vote on that Votable Matter.
- Flavour Text
- When posting a blog entry, a Tesserer may use the "Commentary or flavour text" field of the blog publishing form to add their own comments or description of their post. For the purposes of all other rules, such text is not considered to be part of the post.
- Gamestate
- Any information which the Ruleset regulates the alteration of. All GNDT columns that the Dynastic Rules explicitly mention are assumed to be Gamestate, as are all Wiki Pages that the Dynastic Rules explicitly mention except for dynastic histories and discussion pages.
- May
- "is permitted to"
- May not
- "is not permitted to"
- Post
- A blog post published to the BlogNomic weblog at blognomic.com
- Private Message
- A message sent via Blognomic's Private Messages system at blognomic.com.
- Quorum
- Quorum of a subset of Tesserers is half the number of Tesserers in that subset, rounded down, plus one. If the word Quorum is used without qualifying which subset of Tesserers it is referring to, it is referring to a Quorum of all Tesserers.
- Resolve/Resolution
- If used in a context of a Votable Matter, the word "Resolve" means to perform the act, as an Admin, of enacting or failing a Votable Matter. The world "Resolution" means then the act of doing so. If used in any other context, the meaning of both "Resolve" and "Resolution" is the standard English meaning of these words
- Rule
- Each individually numbered section of the ruleset is a rule, including sections that are sub-rules of other rules.
- Shall
- "is required to"
- Should
- "is recommended that"
- Sibling Rule
- Two rules are "siblings" of each other if they are both direct subrules of the same rule.
- Slack
- The BlogNomic Slack is located at blognomic.slack.com. Tesserers may request an invite to the Slack while logged in by clicking the button in the sidebar.
- Slack Channel
- A Slack Channel is any channel on the BlogNomic Slack. To reference a Slack Channel, use a hash (#) followed by the name of that channel. (For example, #random.)
- Story Post
- A Story Post is an entry in the "Story Post" category.
- Subject
- The "subject" of a blog entry is the part of the Title of an entry which is after the first colon. If the Title does not contain a colon, then the whole Title is the subject. Any entry whose subject is "" (i.e. an empty string) is not valid.
- Subrule
- A subrule is a type of rule that is nested within another rule. A proposal that specifically affects a rule affects all of its subrules; a proposal that specifically affects a subrule does not affect its parent rule or any other subrule of that rule, unless they are also explicitly cited as being affected by that proposal.
- Table of Contents
- The directory of section headings that is generated by the MediaWiki software for most pages in the wiki.
- Table of Contents.
- Vote
- The word "Vote", used as a noun, means a Vote that is cast in accordance with Rule "Votable Matters". The word "Vote", used as a verb, means the act of casting such a Vote.
- Voting Icons
- For use in voting, a check box http://blognomic.com/images/vote/for.gif shall represent a Vote FOR, an X http://blognomic.com/images/vote/against.gif shall represent a Vote AGAINST, an IMP http://blognomic.com/images/vote/imperial.gif shall represent a Vote of DEFERENTIAL, and an Imperial Seal http://blognomic.com/images/vote/seal.gif shall represent the Imperial Veto.
- Week
- References to a week as an entity rather than as a duration (e.g. "At the beginning of each week", or "already happened this week"), unless otherwise stated, refer to a period of time between the beginning of a Monday and the end of the following Sunday.
- Weekly Action
- If a game action is a Weekly Action, each Tesserer able to perform it may take that action once each week, but not more than once every twenty-four hours.
- Weekly Communal Action
- A Weekly Communal action is a Weekly Action that can only be performed by one Tesserer per week.
- Wiki
- The BlogNomic Wiki at http://wiki.blognomic.com
Gamestate Tracking
Votable Matters and other official posts, as well as specific gamestate information, shall be tracked by the BlogNomic blog at http://blognomic.com. Any Tesserer may post to the blog at any time, but may only make official posts to the blog when the Ruleset allows it. Posts following the format specified by a rule are considered official posts. Any single official post cannot be of two different types of official post unless a rule explicitly states otherwise.
An official post may only be removed as allowed by the Ruleset. An official post may be altered by its author if it is less than six hours old and either no Tesserer has commented on it or (if it is a Votable Matter) if all comments on it contain no voting icons; otherwise this can only be done as allowed by the Ruleset. However, despite this, official posts can never be changed from one category to another, or changed to be a different sort of official post, if they have been posted for more than fifteen minutes. The Admin processing an official post is allowed to append to the post to reflect its new status. Anything appended to a post in this way must be placed in the Admin field of the post, and the post's Status must be changed to reflect its status.
A non-official post may not, through editing of the blog or otherwise, be changed into an official post, with the following two exceptions: Firstly, whilst a non-official post has been posted for less than fifteen minutes and has no comments, the author may change the categories as they wish. Secondly, if a post by a Tesserer who has been a Tesserer for fewer than seven days contains the word "Proposal" in its title, but is not a Proposal, and if it has been posted for less than an hour, then any admin may change it to be in the Proposal category.
Specific parts of the Gamestate data shall be tracked by the Generic Nomic Data Tracker at http://blognomic.com/gndt/generic.cgi?nomic=blog. Any Tesserer may update any Tesserer's data via the GNDT, whenever the Ruleset permits it.
All updates to the GNDT are logged. For gamestate which is tracked in a specific place (such as the GNDT or a wiki page), any alteration of that gamestate as a result of a Tesserer's action is (and can only be) applied by editing that data in that place. One GNDT or wiki update may contain one or more alterations, or one alteration may be split over multiple updates, as long as it is clear what is happening and the alterations are otherwise legal. The GNDT merely represents the Gamestate, and is not the same thing. In the event that the Gamestate and the GNDT are different, any Tesserer may correct the GNDT to comply with the Gamestate.
If a Tesserer feels that the GNDT was altered such that it no longer matches the gamestate (such as by performing an action which was against the Rules (as they were at the time of the alteration), or by any other means), they may simply undo the effects of that alteration. Instead of repeatedly reverting and re-reverting a disputed GNDT update, Tesserers are encouraged to raise a Call for Judgement instead. Tesserers shall be assigned a password for the GNDT when they join the Nomic.
Random Generators
The GNDT can be used to generate random results.
- The DICEN command can be used to generate a random number between 1 and N.
- The FRUIT command will return a random result from the following options: Lemon, Orange, Kiwi, Grape, Cherry, Tangelo.
- The COLOUR (or COLOR) command will return a random result from the following: White, Red, Green, Silver, Yellow, Turquoise, Magenta, Orange, Purple, Black.
Any changes to the potential outcomes of the GNDT's random result commands must be made by proposal; and any proposal that seeks to nominate a change to this rule must first identify a Tesserer with server-level access to the BlogNomic site who is able to perform the changes, and must also update this rule to reflect the new potential outcomes.
If a number or other game variable is selected 'at random' or 'randomly' from a range of possible values, its value shall always be taken from a uniform probability distribution over the entire range of possible values, unless otherwise specified. This value must be determined by an appropriate DICE roll in the GNDT, unless otherwise specified. If a selection is explicitly specified as being "secretly" random, the Tesserer making this determination may do so using a private method of their choosing, instead of the GNDT.
Numbers and Variables
- If a set of valid values is not specified in their definition, game variables defined to hold numeric values can hold only non-negative integers. Any action that would set those values below zero is an illegal action unless explicitly otherwise stated in the ruleset.
- Any situation which would require a roll of DiceX when X is zero or lower always yields a value of 0 unless stated otherwise.
- All numbers, unless stated otherwise by a rule, are in base ten.
- Unless otherwise specified, to "spend" or "lose" an amount X of a numeric value "V" means to subtract X from V; to "gain" X of a numeric value "V" means to add X to V; and to "transfer" X of a numeric value "V" from A to B means to subtract X from A's V and add X to B's V. Unless otherwise specified, only positive amounts can be spent, lost, gained, or transferred, and a rule that allows Tesserers to transfer a numeric value only allows them to transfer that value from themselves to another Tesserer (of their choice unless otherwise stated).
- A Tesserer who has a choice in whether to take an action defined by a dynastic rule may not take that action if both of the following conditions are true: a) the action's effects are limited to changing values tracked in the GNDT and/or similar gamestate-tracking entities (such as a wiki page), and b) the action would change one or more of those values to an illegal value.
- If a rule implies that the result of any calculation should be an integer (for instance, by attempting to store that result in, or add it to, a gamestate variable that can only hold integers), the result of the calculation is instead the result rounded towards 0.
- If a game variable has no defined starting value, then that starting value is the nearest legal value to zero that it may take (for numerical variables, defaulting to positive if tied), blank (for a text string or list that may be blank), the alphabetically earliest legal text string it may take (for a text string which may not be blank, with the digits 0 through 9 considered to precede "A"), or the list which is alphabetically earliest from the set of lists with the fewest elements (for lists which may not be blank, and considering each list to be a single unpunctuated text string, with the digits 0 through 9 considered to precede "A").
- Invalid values for game variables can never be used, even if the values stored in the GNDT remain valid. (for example, if X appears in a formula referring to a value that is a non-negative integer, X must be used as a non-negative integer)
- DICEN cannot be rolled in the GNDT if N is 22 or more digits long.
Rules and Proposals
- If a new rule is created by a proposal and its location is not noted in that proposal, that new rule is to be placed in the Dynastic Rules.
- If a wiki page becomes gamestate as a result of a proposal enacting, that page shall - unless otherwise specified - be reverted to whatever state it was in at the time of that proposal's submission (and if the page did not exist at that time, it shall be blanked).
- Where a Proposal would amend the effects of Proposal Enactment, this does not apply to its own enactment unless explicitly stated (eg. a proposal proposing that enacted proposals earn their author a banana when enacted would not earn a banana for its own author, when enacted).
- Rules which trigger upon the Resolution of a Votable Matter are the responsibility of the Admin who Resolves it.
- Unless otherwise specified, a new Dynastic rule shall be placed at the end of the Dynastic Rules.
- If the admin enacting a proposal reaches a step which cannot be applied immediately (eg. "two days after this proposal enacts, Tesserer A gains 1 point"), that step is ignored for the purposes of enactment. Once a proposal has been enacted, it can have no further direct effect on the gamestate.
- For the purpose of all rules, time in Blognomic is in UTC.
- All references to time must be either specific or defined within the ruleset to be considered achievable in the gamestate. Abstract concepts of time (e.g. "dinnertime", "twilight") cannot be achieved until they fulfil one of these criteria.
- Where the month, day and/or year of a calendar date are ambiguous (eg. "04/10/09"), it shall be assumed that the date is in a day/month/year format.
- Superficial differences between the spelling of geographic versions of English, e.g, British English, American English and Australian English shall be construed as irrelevant for the purposes of play.
- Within the ruleset, a word only refers to the name of a Tesserer if it is explicitly stated that it refers to a Tesserer's name.
- If a rule would ever have no name, it is instead named "Unnamed Rule".
- The names of rules are not themselves rule text and have no effect other than being rule names.
- Subrules can be referred to by a name which incorporates name of the rule they are a subrule of. Example: a subrule of the rule "Gin" is a "Gin Rule", however the rule "Gin" is not a "Gin Rule" because it's not a subrule of the rule "Gin".
- When referring to a proposal, the name used in reference to a specific proposal may be simplified by not including braces and any text between the opening and closing braces. i.e. a proposal named "Changes [Core]" could instead be referred to by the name "Changes".
- If two parts of the Ruleset contradict each other, precedence shall be construed in the following order:
- The Appendix has precedence over any Rule;
- A Dynastic Rule has precedence over a Core Rule, unless that Core Rule explicitly says it can't be overruled by a Dynastic Rule;
- If both contradicting parts are Core Rules, or if both of them are Dynastic Rules, the part with more limited scope applies. (e.g. if the rules "Tesserers may Kick each other" and "Tesserers may not kick each other on Tuesdays" exist, and it is Tuesday, Tesserers may not Kick each other.)
- If two parts with the same scope contradict each other, the negative rule applies. (e.g. with "Tesserers may Punch a Spaceman on Friday" and "Tesserers may not Punch Spacemen on Friday", then Tesserers may not Punch Spacemen on Friday.)
- Special Case Rules have equal precedence as Dynastic Rules, unless that Special Case Rule explicitly says it can't be overruled by a Dynastic Rule.


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And there goes the possibility of considering buying that kite. Come on now guys, there's only two struts, why on heavens shake would you want to put (that terrible-or any other kind) one pump to that?Phil wrote:The Ride has the one Pumpcglazier wrote:Looks interesting.
In the past Naish produced their school kites without the one pump system whcih was a shame because sometimes the school kites were pretty nice otherwise. What about the Ride?
Main difference is the bar which is 24m, has a different soft grip and has no swivel on the front lines.
Have Fun & Ride Safe
Just adding weight, cost and complex in an otherwise simple kite.

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This presentation is part of the Application Development Program commissioned by the New York City Charter School Center. Created by charter school expert Cynthia Millinger, Education Plan: Support for Learning assists planning teams in developing an outreach program to involve the parents and local community. Building a program that will pass the selective criteria of the authorizing agencies is a main theme of this presentation.


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SANTA BARBARA, Calif. - Junior Chris Peterson placed 22nd in the 100 freestyle during Saturday's preliminaries at the 2011 NCAA Division I Swimming and Diving Championships in Minneapolis, Minn. The event was Peterson's second at the championship; he tied for 21st in the 50 free on Thursday.
Peterson finished the 100 free in 43.37 seconds, which was just .02 seconds slower than his school-record time swam at the Pac-10 Championships earlier this month. He failed to qualify for the event's consolation final by .30 seconds, but finished three spots higher than his seed into the event.
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Creating Trust: Moving from Lurking to User Generated Content
As a training professional, I know what makes good online training and what makes boring and ineffective online training. We often get complaints that our training doesn't present a variety of view points, it doesn't go far enough, does not present enough practical examples, or that you can't change attitudes or behavior with online training. These are all valid arguments that training professionals face in making the case for online training. But these days, social media can be used to address some of these issues with communities of practice for learning.
As always, the key to an effective learning experience is to get the learning to continue after the online course ends. Creating communities of practice, slowly generates trust, and turns learners into experts who will create and pass along their experiences, essentially creating user-generated content.
In most online communities, 90% of community members are lurkers. (Institute of Behavioural Research, 2008, Preece, Nonnecke, and Andrews , 2004) Lurkers get a great benefit from the community, as they come to the community for primarily to read and review the content. The trick to growing a community of practice however, is to change lurkers to participants. Lurkers generally do not contribute until they foresee a benefit to their contribution, or an increased social equity; social equity is essentially a raise in trust and status among community members. To increase social equity, lurkers must establish social networks of their own.
Communities of practice have an advantage over other types of communities in that their membership generally shares a common level of expertise or a common experience: for example, cardiac physicians, or people who have passed their CCNA certification, or even participants who attended the same online class. Content generated by the membership of a community of practice can even be perceived as more trustworthy than traditional content , (ITtoolbox and PJA Advertising + Marketing "IT Social Media Index, 2007), as audiences today feel as they can perceive the difference between traditional marketing-type content and user generated content. In a community of practice, this perception may be especially important, as there is a common level of expertise among the participants and therefore an implicit level of trust.
The more that community of practice members can make connections and engage with other members of the community to gain trust, the more they will feel comfortable making contributions to the community. Lurkers may start by simply rating a particular post or blog, but again, the community of practice advantage is their expertise, and shared experiences, which can make lurkers more comfortable in moving beyond ratings to actual postings.
Activity in a community of practice and the creation of user generated content has a strong correlation with the completeness of user profile information, making it easier for community of practice members to find and follow each other. After all, it is only natural that a community member will be more comfortable displaying knowledge and expressing opinions among friends, rather than strangers. Therefore in a community of practice, it is absolutely essential that participants are encouraged to complete their user profile information to more easily find friends and make content contributions to the community.
So take some time today to fill out your user profile and "follow" fellow community members, it's the first step from moving from a lurker to a full-fledged community member.
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Dr. Jose A. Wong - Perez
…An excellent approach…I think that the social network like "facebook" gave me the tools to breach the gap and expand my classrooms in those examples, information, and questions beyond the scenario in the curricula…may lurkers finally engage and become full participants…Thanks for sharing this keynote…


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ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Tampa Bay center fielder Kevin Kiermaier has a torn ligament in his right thumb that requires surgery and could be sidelined for two to three months.
The Rays placed the defensive whiz on the 10-day disabled list Monday, a day after he was injured sliding head-first into second base during a 10-4 loss to the Philadelphia Phillies.
The club said surgery will be scheduled "in the coming days."
This will be the third straight season the 27-year-old, two-time Gold Glove winner will miss significant time because of injury.
Kiermaier, who's batting .163 with one RBI this year, missed 48 games after breaking his left wrist diving for a ball in 2016. Last season, he fractured his right hip sliding feet-first into first base and was sidelined for 61 games.
Right-handed pitcher Chih-Wei Hu was recalled from Triple-A Durham to fill Kiermaier's spot on the roster.


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Earlier this year, entrepreneur and founder of The School for Startups, Doug Richard, published his Entrepreneurs' Manifesto – a "declaration of rights" for small businesses.
The manifesto sets out eight demands to a new government, each of which addresses a different key concern for businesses. In the build-up to the 6 May general election, Donut MD Rory MccGwire is offering his thoughts on the issues raised by Doug Richard.
Scrap Business Link?
In Part 1 of this blog I summarised the recent history of business support in the UK. I concluded that, after 20 years of heavy expenditure, one precious asset that we have is a brand that most business people recognise. Business Link is "the place to go to access whatever help is available".
I take this view notwithstanding the fact that I'm still hearing the same things now as I've heard every single year during that period.
"Business support is too fragmented." "I don't know where to go for help." "It needs to be more practical." "The advisers need to be people who have run SMEs." "It must be local." And meanwhile the civil servants seem as keen as ever to have a service that is "innovative", a word that is prominent in every tender that comes across my desk at BHP, the company behind the Donut websites.
In his intentionally controversial Entrepreneurs' Manifesto, Doug Richard proposes scrapping Business Link and moving business support online.
Traditionally, business support has been delivered one-to-one through business advisers and telephone helplines, together with an extensive calendar of training courses and networking events.
But hold on a minute, let's start by asking what we are trying to achieve. What are the objectives of government business support?
Well, it's support for businesses of course. There are about four million of them.
Some of them are like Doug Richard and me: successful (OK, he's a lot more successful than me, I'm the first to admit it), confident, experienced, and so on. Do these individuals seek Business Link's help on how to start a business, or how to comply with all the regulations surrounding employing someone? Probably not, but we do take advantage of tailored support for 'high growth' companies. The UK invests a lot of money helping its most capable businessmen, not least because the next Google, Dyson or Nokia may be among the businesses that they start. I have mixed views on this.
I generally prefer 'pull' to 'push'. So who are the people who actually come looking for help?
In a word, novices. It is people who feel they would like to be self-employed, but want to bounce their idea off someone with some experience who can also tell them how to go about getting started.
One obvious group that springs to mind is women who are returning to work once their children are in full-time education. They have a high propensity to seek help.
Another group who ask for help is people who have never run a business, but suddenly find themselves out of work. (By the way, Tony Robinson, the well-informed boss of SFEDI, the standards-setting body, was quoting a UK statistic that if you're made redundant at age 45 you only have a 10% chance of getting a new job.)
There are lots of subgroups like this. Some of them get lumped together in reports under the unflattering name of 'disadvantaged groups', or 'the hard to reach'.
Do these guys all use the web for business support? Er, no. The latest research from the Small Business Research Trust reveals the true extent of this non-use.
In 2007, 'information on websites' was the most popular form of business advice, having just pushed 'face-to-face contact with an adviser' into second place. But the latest data, published in December 2009, puts the business advisers back at the top of the charts. I guess there is simply too much information out there on the web for people to cope with.
BHP's own user-testing bears this out. Users with a specific business question are unlikely to be able to find the answer online. Their first port of call is businesslink.gov, which is also their best chance of finding the answer. So it should be after the vast sums of money that have been invested in it. Happily, they also find the Donut websites useful for the topics that we cover. And likewise a specialist website such as j4bgrants is a treasure trove for that specific search. But while other small business websites are brilliant in other ways, they don't always give you direct answers to direct questions.
As the data shows, businesses are once again finding it easier to simply ask someone: a friend, an accountant, an adviser, or whoever.
Business Link, and the plethora of business support organisations that it acts as the signposting for, delivers this face-to-face support. So it's no good simply scrapping it. The question is, how can we improve it and which organisations should be delivering this one-to-one business support?
I've got lots more to say on this fascinating topic. On call centres; on how to objectively establish the success and value of a service; on the psychology of start-ups and micro businesses; on how to make the front line and the back-office of Business Link (etc) hugely more cost-effective; on how to involve the banks (an old idea, but a good one); on how to get the support/messages of 1,001 different public sector organisations out to small and medium-sized enterprises; on how to do public sector procurement without financially damaging so many of the bidders; and, sticking with procurement, on how to tap into the specialisation, experience, passion and sheer hard work of the smaller suppliers more than we do now; and that is just the first list of things that springs to mind…
But let's see what others have to say first. Comments please!
(By the way, thank you to everyone who commented last week on my business regulations blog, I've enjoyed reading them all.)


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Rough life I have, 2 trips to Hawaii in the past 3 months! Lots has happened between my last update in Kona and our current training camp in Maui. Here's a quick recap and some pictures from the past few months.
After Kona I took a trip to the Nike World Headquarters in Portland, Oregon. This was an incredible place and it was cool to see what goes on behind the scenes in the Nike world. We went to the employee store for a big shopping trip, which was super fun and I came home 3 bags heavier. I met some awesome athletes there too, like really really fast runner Shalane Flanagan who won the US Olympic Marathon trials today!
Next I went home to Edmonton to have Lasik MD eye surgery. I've had bad luck with my contact lenses falling out in races, either from getting whacked in the goggles during the swim, or having them pop out on the bike when my eyes get dry. I've had a lens fall out in 5 of the 8 WCS races I've done in the past few years, so this was important to get done and was honestly a huge life changer for me. 10 minutes in and out of the "operating room" and I can see 100% perfectly. Just had to wear these rockin' sun glasses around for a few days and not swim for a week. Easy.
A few weeks later I flew to Toronto for the Olympic Excellence Series and Media Summit. This was a great opportunity to meet other Canadian athletes from other sports and get a good idea of what the Olympic Games will be like. It was followed by 2 full days of media and interviews, which was a bit exhausting but important to do. I also went with Simon to the opening of the new Nike store in downtown Toronto where they put us on the wall! It was super cool.
I was back in Victoria after that for a good block of training before going home for Christmas break. I spent the holidays in Canmore and Edmonton, doing lots of relaxing and visiting friends and xcountry skiing. Nike generously gave me tickets to a few of the World Junior Hockey games over the holidays, which were fun to watch. The atmosphere in there was crazy exciting. If only Canada loved triathlon as much as they love hockey!
Now I'm in Maui for our January training camp and it's been awesome so far. Training is so much easier when it's warm and sunny, and there's a great group of 7 girls working well together. I didn't do very much outdoor riding this fall so it's been good to get back on the bike for some longer rides. My body is sore and achy and tired, but it definitely feels good! We also got to swim with the U of A team at the end of their Maui camp and it was nice to see some old friends.
Hoping this kicks off a good year ahead. My number one priority is to stay consistent and injury free, which I've discovered it much easier said than done!
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A financially eligible person seeking to vacate or set aside a death sentence in proceedings under 28 U.S.C. § 2254 or § 2255 is entitled to appointment of one or more qualified attorneys. 18 U.S.C. § 3599(a)(2). Due to the complex, demanding, and protracted nature of death penalty proceedings, judicial officers should consider appointing at least two attorneys. 7 Guide to Judiciary Policy § 620.10120.
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