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I've always been in favor of doing this. It makes sense and forces people to not go overboard.
Currently Working On: Incorruptible Pure Pureness
Ignore this.
Edited by badtothebaritone
Bumping since I brought this query up in a related one.
This would be great and far more intuitive than how it is currently.
Edited by AudioSpeaks2 Art Museum Curator and frequent helper of the Web Original deprecation project
If we don't cap bombs, then people can just add more and more and more even if there's already enough to nuke the draft and any more would just be rubbing salt in the wound. We don't want people doing that.
^ That's exactly what currently happens at the TLP. Bombs aren't just for saying "fix this", they are also signals to discard, and when a draft has enough bombs to halt a launch or allow the draft to be discarded, there's no good reason to allow people to add more. It decreases the odds of productive and constructive conversation, and instead people just pile on to see the number go up.
Edited by WarJay77 Currently Working On: Incorruptible Pure Pureness
No one will be able to hat or bomb a draft for 3 days and Bombs will require a reason and your usernames will be on the bombs publicly displayed below the draft. If that isn’t enough then we can run a crowner and see if the community as a whole wants a cap and what that cap would be.
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Whenever a TLP draft has five more hats than bombs (or 5 more bombs than hats), the ability to add more of whichever is of greater quantity should be disabled until more of the other is added. Easy way to completely kill dogpiling.
Edit: Now that I think about it, another change that could be made alongside this one is to make the hats/bombs bar show the net total of whichever there's more of rather than the absolute total of each. Doing it that way should give a better indication of how the draft's doing, and hopefully it's less likely to be inaccurately compared to social media feedback.
Edited by badtothebaritone