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Winter 2008 Althing Proposal 5 Discussion - 2008/11/24 01:20 Proposal 5: Remove the sentence “Knighthood is the highest honor that a member of Amtgard can aspire to” from section 16.

- In section 16, remove the following sentence:

“Knighthood is the highest honor that a member of Amtgard can aspire to.”

Rationale: this single statement is not only misleading (if not flat-out untrue), but has caused more unhealthy competitiveness, award-mongering and mis-guided ill treatment of others in the Game of Amtgard than any other single idea in the Corpora or the Rulebook. As it does not promote healthy game play or the higher level of treatment of others in our game as perhaps was originally intended, it should be removed from the description of Knighthood.
Superstar, do you think you're what they say you are?
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Re:Winter 2008 Althing Proposal 5 Discussion - 2008/11/24 02:58 i really like this proposal. would support a rewording of it as well, but removal doesn't bother me in the slightest. "But right now I'm a little concerned about my pants, since I don't know where they are." - Valathina Nailo
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Re:Winter 2008 Althing Proposal 5 Discussion - 2008/11/24 03:11 While I agree with the fact that this shouldn't be something that needs to be in the corpora, I disagree with this sentence:

"As it does not promote healthy game play or the higher level of treatment of others in our game as perhaps was originally intended, it should be removed from the description of Knighthood."

Taking out a sentence isn't going to make people play nice.

Though, again, I do agree that it really just doesn't need to be in the Corpora at all, if only because it makes something long a little bit longer and is just unneeded overkill.
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Re:Winter 2008 Althing Proposal 5 Discussion - 2008/11/24 14:15 Tski wrote:
While I agree with the fact that this shouldn't be something that needs to be in the corpora, I disagree with this sentence:

"As it does not promote healthy game play or the higher level of treatment of others in our game as perhaps was originally intended, it should be removed from the description of Knighthood."

Taking out a sentence isn't going to make people play nice.

Though, again, I do agree that it really just doesn't need to be in the Corpora at all, if only because it makes something long a little bit longer and is just unneeded overkill.


yeah, a change in sentence, or a removal of something doesn't change the world in a day. but it's a first step right? at least this discussion we're having right here, maybe someone reads this and says "huh?" and someone else gets in a discussion.. and there you've got a couple more people thinking about it in a new way, the idea spreads, and maybe the culture doesn't change but at least there's more people thinking about it and maybe the next time a new person says "what's knighthood? I wanna be a knight!" the discussion they have with someone at the park might be a little different than the discussion someone had with a newb 3 years ago.
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Re:Winter 2008 Althing Proposal 5 Discussion - 2008/11/24 21:55 Fair enough, and well spoken Grendel. ^_^
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