Nomic

I propose the following game about voting

Senate

Every player has the aim to gain influence (other resources may follow later). When ever a rule proposal is accepted the player gains influence equivalent to the total number of upvotes.

Rule 0 immutable : a user may propose a change in the rules. If the difference of up and down votes is positive after 24h and atleast two users voted the rule will be added or edited in this description. The rule and the final score after 24h have to be commented below the proposal. A rule change may be:

the addition of a new mutable rule

the amendment of a mutable rule

the repeal of a mutable rule

the transmutation of a rule from mutable to immutable,

or the transmutation of a rule from immutable to mutable

Rule 1 mutable: a user is awarded influence for all positive votes of an accepted proposal

Ok, I hereby propose the following ruleset for this thread: [mostly stolen from @No_Change_Just_Money ]

Nomic Hangman

Rule 0: a user may propose a new rule or a change to an existing rule in a comment to this post. If the difference of up and down votes is greater than 1 after 24h the rule will be added to the ruleset. The new ruleset and the numbers of upvotes and downvotes will be posted as an answer to the comment proposing the new rule or the change.

Rule 1: A user may post a number of blanks [_] each representing a letter from a word.

Rule 2: any other user may comment a Letter they think is in the word as an awnser to the post containing the blanks. If the difference of up and down votes is positive after 24h the letter is submitted.

Rule 3 if a submitted letter is in the word the first user will edit their post and exchange any blanks corresponding with this letter to this letter.

Rule 4 if a submitted letter is not in the word the original user will add one to a fail score.

Rule 5 if the fail score reaches 10 the game is lost. If all blanks are filled the game is won.

Else someone could just edit their rule after it got voted.

Lemmy's thread system might be powerful enough to allow whole games in one of these posts!

Alternatively, we could open new communities per game?

Or have a set of posts per game: one for rules, one for discussion, ...

Nomic is a game [...] the rules of which include mechanisms for changing those rules, usually beginning by way of democratic voting.

Newbies welcome, we haven't even decided about the rules yet :D

I would like to harness the possibility to upvote and downvote posts. Is there a possibility to close the voting? If not, maybe we could use that also – then voting would never stop, which would make things interesting at the very least...