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| − | = Core Rules =
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| − | == Ruleset and Gamestate ==
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| − | This is the '''Ruleset''' for PodNomic; all Contributors shall obey it. The Gamestate is defined as any information which the Ruleset regulates the alteration of.
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| − | The ruleset consists of three sections: the core rules, which govern the game as a persistent whole, the schedule, which governs the timing of events in the game, and the seasonal rules, which cover specific rules of gameplay. In general, the core rules and the schedule are considered to be more persistent and harder to amend, while the seasonal rules are intended to be more transactional.
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| − | The Ruleset and Gamestate can only be altered in manners specified by the Ruleset.
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| − | If the Ruleset does not properly reflect all legal changes that have been made to it, any Contributor may update it to do so.
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| − | ===Core rule amendments===
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| − | Any votable matter that would change the core rules can be enacted if more than 66% of the Contributors have voted FOR it. This rule supersedes the provision for enactment set out in the rule Resolution, but is superseded by the schedule rule Schedule Protection.
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| − | ==Contributors==
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| − | The game has two roles, Contributors and Listeners. Listeners are people who have listened to or are otherwise aware of Podnomic, but who have not contributed to it in any way. Any Listener may becomes a Contributor by performing any Contributor action that is defined in the ruleset.
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| − | == The Host==
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| − | At any time, the game has one Contributor who is the Host. The Host is responsible for producing and publishing the Podcast according to the schedule set out in the schedule rules.
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| − | ===The Helper===
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| − | If the Host believes that they may not be able to publish the next episode according to the terms laid out in the rule “Production Schedule”, or is unable to publish the next episode according to such, they may appoint a single Contributor or a Listener, who must be willing, to become a Helper. A Helper is to perform as many of the duties pertaining to publishing the next episode as is required to publish the next episode on time. If an action required of the Host is performed by the Helper, that action is considered to have been done by the Host. The Helper must have permission before performing an action that is required of the Host.
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| − | During an episode in which a Helper performed any actions required of the Host, the Host should say the following at some point during the episode: “And I give special thanks to [name of Helper] for helping this episode come out on time.” If the episode was narrated by the Helper, the Helper should instead say “And my condolences to [name of Host], who will hopefully be able to return for the next episode.”
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| − | All Helpers, if any, cease to become Helpers after each episode.
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| − | ===Seasons===
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| − | The Podcast has Seasons; the current Season is Season 1.
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| − | == Official Entries and Votable Matters ==
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| − | An official entry is any communication whose content or format is determined by the ruleset. A Votable Matter is an official entry which Contributors may cast Votes on, which must seek to make changes to the ruleset or gamestate.
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| − | Votable Matters are made by submitting them privately to the Host through the PodNomic Discord server. A Votable Matter must be submitted with the following elements: a title, an audio clip in which the text of the Votable Matter is read aloud, and an accurate plain-text transcript of the text that was read aloud in the audio clip.
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| − | Votable Matters have statuses, as follows. A Votable Matter may have only one status; when it gains a status it looses the one it previously had. A non-Votable Matter cannot have any of these statuses.
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| − | * When a Votable Matter is submitted, until the next Production Cutoff as defined in the schedule rules, the Votable Matter is a Draft. During this time it may be freely edited or amended, so long as the audio clip and the text transcript consistently reflect the same text.
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| − | * Between the first Production Cutoff after it was posted and the publishing of the next episode of the Podcast, a Votable Matter is a Bill and cannot be edited or voted upon.
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| − | * After a Votable Matter has been broadcast as part of an episode of the Podcast, and until the subsequent Production Cutoff, it is a Proposal, and may not be edited but may be voted upon.
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| − | * Between the first Production Cutoff to take place after it became a Proposal and the publishing of the next episode of the Podcast, a Votable Matter is an Act and it cannot be edited or voted upon.
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| − | * After a Votable Matter has had its vote tallies read on an episode of the Podcast it ceases to be a Votable Matter and may be neither edited nor reacted to (beyond marking it as resolved, as per the rule Resolution).
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| − | When a votable matter becomes a Proposal, which is to say, after it has been broadcast on an episode of the Podcast, the Host should upload its audio and transcript to the votable-matters channel of the Podnomic discord.
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| − | ==Votes==
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| − | When a Votable Matter is a Proposal, each Contributor may cast one vote on it by submitting a response privately to the Host through the PodNomic Discord server, indicating FOR or AGAINST.
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| − | When a Contributor casts a vote AGAINST their own Proposal, this renders the Proposal '''Withdrawn'''. Withdrawing a Proposal cannot be reversed; once cast, such a vote cannot be changed.
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| − | The Host's vote on each proposal should be informed by the feedback (if any) received from Listeners since the last episode.
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| − | ===Resolution===
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| − | Votable Matters are resolved on the episode of the Podcast immediately following the episode of the Podcast in which they were initially broadcast, by means of the Host reading aloud their title, the final votes cast on that Votable Matter, and confirming the outcome. Any Contributor may then enacted the resolution by marking them as resolved (using the :resolved: react) and updating the ruleset or gamestate as directed. Votable matters must be resolved based on the following criteria:
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| − | A votable matter can be enacted if it has more votes FOR than AGAINST. (Proposals which have been Withdrawn can never be enacted.)
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| − | A votable matter can be failed if it cannot otherwise be enacted.
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| − | Proposals must be resolved in chronological order, from oldest to newest.
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| − | This rule is superseded where appropriate by the rules Core Rule Amendments and Schedule Protection.
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| − | ==Licencing and Attribution==
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| − | All audio recorded for use in PodNomic, including episodes of the podcast and the audio recordings of votable matters, are shared under an Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International creative commons licence.
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| − | ==I Say Therefore I Do==
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| − | There exists (and if it doesn’t, it shall be created) a channel called #saying. When an action is said to be performed by saying so, that means that it can be performed by posting a sound file to #saying that says so, along a transcript of what you just said.
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| − | ==Transcript Accuracy==
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| − | Where the rules require that a transcript be produced, any reasonably accurate transcript is to be accepted. In particular, filler words, background noises, and obviously misspoken sections need not be reflected in the transcript. When the transcriber of the audio is also the producer of the audio, reasonable deference is to be given to the transcript about the intended meaning and grammatical structure of the audio.
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| − | =Schedule Rules=
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| − | ==Schedule Protection==
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| − | The Schedule Rules govern the production schedule for the Podcast and define the practical steps that must be taken to fulfil the requirements of the ruleset. Contributors may not attempt to alter the Schedule Rules in ways that would have the effect of making the Podcast impossible or unduly onerous to produce; Contributors are required to vote AGAINST any Votable Matter whose impact would be to either alter the Schedule Rules in ways that would be contrary to the physical or mental wellbeing of the Host, or which would undermine of weaken the provision of this rule. This rule takes precedence over all other rules in the ruleset.
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| − | The Schedule Rules may not be amended without the Host's assent. Any Votable Matter that would amend the Schedule Rules, or which would have the effect of amending the Schedule Rules, may not be enacted unless the Host has voted FOR it. The Host may freely revert any game action that they feel has increased the burden upon them to the point at which it makes the commitment to continue being the Host unmanageable.
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| − | ==Production Schedule==
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| − | Throughout the rules, the term 'Podcast' refers to PodNomic. An episode of the Podcast is a single instance of that Podcast. Each episode must have a number, which increases consecutively episode by episode, and a date upon which it is to be released.
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| − | Episodes of the Podcast must be produced such that they are released at noon UTC on the Tuesday and Friday of each week.
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| − | Each Episode of the Podcast has a Production Cutoff. The Production Cutoff of an episode is noon UTC one day before its release (i.e. Monday and Thursday each week).
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| − | ==Podcast Content==
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| − | The title of each episode in its RSS feed should be "Episode X: Y Z", where X is the episode number, Y is an adjective of the Host's choice from any Bill, and Z is a noun of the Host's choice from a different Bill.
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| − | The PodNomic background music shall play through the entirety of each episode of the podcast, except for during the reading of each proposal's text. The Host shall, during each episode of the podcast, name the title and artist of the background music, and the licence that it is used under.
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| − | Each episode of the Podcast must begin with the following script:
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| − | "Hello and welcome to PodNomic, a podcast about nomics that is also a nomic. This is episode x of season y, for broadcast on z" - where x is the episode number, y is the season number, and z is the date.
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| − | Each episode of the podcast must include, for each accepted challenge posted before this episode’s production cutoff and not included in a previous episode, a correction, describing the nature of the error and providing corrected or missing information as necessary.
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| − | Each episode of the Podcast must broadcast the audio clip of each Bill, in the order in which they were posted. Each Bill should be announced with its title and the name of its author.
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| − | Each episode of the podcast should list all Acts, in the order in which they were initially posted, with their titles, the names of their authors, a tally of the votes cast upon them, and whether they were enacted or failed.
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| − | Each episode of the podcast must include the host saying the phrase 'this episode of PodNomic is brought to you by' and then listing a business, ideally fictional, that the host sees fit to claim that the episode is sponsored by, and then make up a slogan for that business. If it's a real business, it should still be a fictional slogan.
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| − | Each episode of the podcast should give thanks to a list of the names of all Contributors who have a score above zero, in decreasing order of that score. Ties are broken alphabetically, and the scores themselves are not stated.
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| − | Each episode of the Podcast should include the most recent new News Item from each PodNomic correspondent.
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| − | Each episode of the Podcast should end with the following script:
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| − | "That’s it for this episode of PodNomic. I’ve been your host, [name of host]. See you next time."
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| − | Beyond these restrictions, the Host is free to order the content of each episode of the Podcast as they see fit.
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| − | Each episode of the podcast should include the URL of a page where listeners can find out more about the game.
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| − | ==Segments==
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| − | A segment is defined as an audio clip, which may be no more than two minutes in length, that has been recorded by a Contributor, optionally with additional input from other Contributors or listeners. Segments may be uploaded to the #segments channel of the PodNomic discord.
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| − | A Contributor may record and upload a segment at any time. A fresh segment is any Segment that has not been played on the Podcast before. Contributors may react to fresh segments with any emoji they choose. Contributors may delete their own fresh segments from the channel; if they do, then that segment ceases to be fresh.
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| − | The Host should include up to two segments in each episode, selecting those fresh segments to have been responded to with the most emoji reactions, breaking ties randomly.
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| − | The Host privately tracks five secret criteria for Segments. A criterion may refer to any aspect of the Segment's content, such as the presence or absence of particular letters, words, background sounds or features of its delivery. Each of the five criteria has a different Value, which must be either 1, 2, 4, 8 or 16.
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| − | The Value of a Segment is the total Value of all criteria that the Host considers it to meet. Each Segment should have its Value mentioned when it is broadcast.
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| − | ===Interview Prep===
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| − | A segment is an interview if it is produced by the Host and features the Host speaking extemperaneously to a Contributor or non-Contributor about something that is happening in a nomic other than Podnomic. An interview has a maximum length of five minutes instead of the default 2.
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| − | ===All The News===
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| − | At any time, any other online nomic may have up to one PodNomic correspondent, who does not need to be a Contributor of PodNomic. This person should be named in the ruleset of the nomic they are representing. Whenever the identity of a nomic's PodNomic correspondent changes, any member of that nomic should notify the Host. At any time, a PodNomic correspondent may record an audio file of themselves reading a News Item for PodNomic and send it to the Host. A News Item is new if it has never been broadcast on an episode before.
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| − | ==Editing and Review==
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| − | The Host is permitted to mix and master provided audio clips from Contributors and listeners for the benefit of the production value of the podcast, via methods including noise filtering, volume normalization , low and high pass filtering, de-essing, and trimming silent sections of the provided audio clips, etc., so long as the transcribed content of the audio clips is retained.
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| − | ==Specials==
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| − | In addition to episodes, there are PodNomic Specials, which are published as if they were episodes of the podcast. The host shall release specials at noon UTC on Sunday whenever there are any pending publication.
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| − | Any Contributor can record a special as directed by the rules. When a special recorded by a Contributor is published, that Contributor earns 5 score.
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| − | ===Ruleset Readout===
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| − | The Ruleset Readout is a kind of special in which the entire ruleset is read out loud.
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| − | If no Ruleset Readout has been published in the current month and there is no Ruleset Reader, any Contributor can claim the opportunity to become such by stating that they do so in #claims. Once they do this they become a claimant. 72 hours after someone becomes a claimant when there are no other claimants, if there is only one claimant, then they become the Ruleset Reader. If there are multiple, then any Contributor can randomly select one such Contributor. That Contributor then becomes the Ruleset Reader. When a Contributor becomes the Ruleset Reader, all claimants cease to be claimants.
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| − | The Ruleset Reader must, within 96 hours of becoming such, record the Ruleset Readout and send it to the Host.
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| − | ==Season Transitions==
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| − | If any Contributor has one or more Crowns, instead of reading the end of episode script, the Host should read the following script:
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| − | "This is the last episode of this season of Podnomic. Congratulations to x, who [is/are] the winner[/s] of this season; we'll be back with a new season shortly. Until then, I've been your host, y. See you next time."
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| − | - where x is the name or names of the Contributors who have more than zero Crowns, the choices in square brakets relate to pluralising the sentence where appropriate, and y is the Host's own name.
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| − | After such an episode is broadcast they must set the Crowns and Score of all Contributors to zero, and increase the number of the current Season in the rule Seasons by 1.
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| − | In the subsequent episode, instead of reading the usual opening script, the Host should read the following:
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| − | "Welcome back for a new season of Podnomic, a podcast about nomics that is also a nomic. This is episode x of season y, for broadcast on z" - where x is the episode number, y is the season number, and z is the date.
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| − | =Seasonal Rules=
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| − | ==Background Music==
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| − | The PodNomic background music is Quasi Motion by Kevin MacLeod, used under a CC-Attribution licence.
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| − | Between an episode's production cutoff and release, the Host should visit https://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/full_list.php and select a random page of the results, then select a random track from that page, then update the previous paragraph to include the title, artist and licence of the selected track.
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| − | The Host may reroll the result of the background music selection for any episode if he finds that the background music selected is not available for any reason.
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| − | ==Random Choices==
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| − | Whenever the rules require a random choice to be made, it shall be made using the distribution specified (or a uniform distribution if not specified). The choice can be made by any method such that the distribution is reasonably close to the required distribution and that the final choice is not trivially predictable in advance. The method used should be public and verifiable.
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| − | ==Discussion==
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| − | Contributors are encouraged to, but not required to, include within a votable matter discussion of changes within the votable matter. This discussion is encouraged to be extemporaneous, or with notes, but not read from prepared text.
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| − | ==Production Aliases==
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| − | An episode that is slated to be published Tuesday is a Tuesday Episode.
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| − | An episode that is slated to be published Friday is a Friday Episode.
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| − | ==Definitions==
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| − | The word “should” indicates that something is encouraged, but not strictly required, by the rules.
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| − | ==Fallibility==
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| − | The Host shall endeavour to the best of their capability to produce each episode in accordance with the rules set out in the ruleset. However, any sound file published by the Host purporting to be an episode is considered to be a valid episode, provided that it was produced in good faith.
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| − | If a Contributor believes that an episode uploaded less than 14 days ago contains inaccurate information, or is otherwise not in accordance with the rules, they may create a challenge by sending a message describing the issue to the #challenges channel. The host may accept a challenge by reacting to it with a suitable emoji. If the alleged issue does not exist, the host may reject the challenge by replying to it with a message explaining the circumstances. Before the release time of an episode of the podcast, the host shall have accepted or rejected all challenges issued before that episode’s production cutoff.
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| − | Any statements made in a valid episode are considered to be definitive, provided that they are not challenged within 14 days after publication, or, if they have been challenged, those challenges have all been rejected.
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| − | ==Score==
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| − | Each Contributor has a score, which is tracked privately by the Host and starts at zero.
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| − | If a Contributor is the author of a votable matter that's enacted then they gain one Score; if a Contributor is the author of a Segment that is broadcast on an episode of the Podcast then then they gain Score equal to one fifth of its value, rounded up.
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| − | If a Contributor would score for multiple votable matters that were broadcast in a single episode, then they instead only score the first. If a Contributor would score for multiple Segments that were broadcast in a single episode, then they instead only score the first.
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| − | A Contributor with 30 or more points may message the Host to exchange 30 of their Score for one Crown.
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| − | ==Multiple Authors==
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| − | Voteable Matters may include a list of authors to be included in the Podcast, this may include anyone who helped such as voice actors, people who helped with writing, or even a friend who gave you the idea. This will be listed at the top of the proposal and will be said when the (Main) Author's name is to be said.
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| − | ==Cohosts==
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| − | Any Contributor who has at least a score of ten may privately communicate with the host their intention to be a cohost for an episode. When the host receives such a communication from a Contributor they should reduce the score of that Contributor by ten, and in the next episode to be produced following the receipt of that message should aim to record a brief, no more than one minute, segment with the Contributor who sent them that message, in which they discuss anything of the Contributor's choice.
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| − | ==Houses==
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| − | Each correspondent may set their primary nomic affiliation by saying so. The primary nomic affiliation of a contributor must be the name of a nomic that they most affiliate with, or spend most time on. Each nomic has its own score which is the sum of the scores of all contributors who have that nomic as their primary affiliated nomic.
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