MefiNomic: blog as nomic game This is an initial draft of a simple Nomic ruleset with some extra rules to define the notion of the state of a model web site. It's not all that clean or technically polished as rulesets go -- I'm more interested in playing with the blog model than with hair-splitting on basic voting mechanisms, etc. The model of the site and user behavior is also intentionally anemic initially; creating many of the finer details of how sites and users and posts and comments interact seems like the real (potential) meat of playing something like this. The draft: ### 1. Core Rules 1.a THE GAME: there exists a Game, called MefiNomic, described by the following. 1.b THE RULES: there exists a set of Rules, each of which has a unique name and number. 1.c THE PLAYERS: there exists a set of Players, listed in rule 1.d ("PLAYER LIST"), each of whom is a single human participant in the game. 1.d PLAYER LIST: cortex, player2, player3, player4, ... 1.e PROPOSALS: a Proposal is a proposed alteration to the set of Rules. A Player may make a Proposal at any time. If a Proposal is Approved, its alterations to the Rules are put into effect, and is ignored thereafter. If it is Declined, it's alterations are it is ignored thereafter. 1.f PENDING: as long as a Proposal has not been either Approved or Declined, it is Pending. Each Player is allowed one Vote per Proposal, and so long as the Proposal is Pending, a Player may change their Vote. 1.g VOTES: a Player's vote can be any of the following: Yes, No, or Abstain. 1.h APPROVAL: if more than half of the Players have voted Yes on a Proposal, the Proposal is immediately Approved. 1.i DECLINATION: if more than half of the Players have voted No on a Proposal, the Proposal is immediately Declined. 1.j COMMENTARY: there may exist, displayed adjascent to the Rules, text called Commentary, which included only and all text on a line preceded by the characters '###'. Commentary is included for explanatory or organizational purposes only, and has no enforcable effect on the Rules. ### 2. Terms & Entities 2.a SITES: A Site is a thing that can contain Posts, Comments and Users. 2.b POSTS: A Post is a thing that has some text characters and has a unique numeric post id. A Post can contain Comments. 2.c COMMENTS: A Comment is a thing that has some text characters and has a unique numeric comment id. 2.d USERS: A User is an entity that belongs to a Site. A User has a unique text user name. A User can create Posts and Comments. ### 3. Sites: 3.a THE SITE: there exists a Site named MefiNomic. ### 4. Posts: 4.a FIRST POST: there exists a Post with post id "1", contained in the Site MefiNomic, and which contains the text "This is the first post on MefiNomic". ### 5. Comments: 5.a FIRST COMMENT: there exists a Comment with comment id "1", and which has the text "This is the first comment on MefiNomic", and which is contained by Post "1". ### 6. Users: 6.a FIRST USER: there exists a User whose name is "Default".