Editing Round 9/History (section)

=== Duck Naming ===

Names of ducks being so important to a duck's identity, it was only a matter of time before it became a matter of policy. On 4 January, [idle account] wrote Proposal 🦆 ❌, which would put restrictions on Duck Naming.

{{Proposal Box
|name= 🦆 ❌
|text=
Amend rule "Ducks" with a subsection entitled "duck naming criteria" which reads:
All player may give their duck any name, with the following exceptions:
:* names impersonating players
:* names violating Discord's TOS or the rules of the Infinite Nomic Discord server
:* names longer than 9,000 characters or shorter than 0
:* names made illegal by other rules of this nomic
:* Jeffery

:Any duck possessing any of these names loses it immediately.

:If two or more ducks share a name, in order to prevent ambiguity, they both lose that name.
}}

Observers were quick to point out that this proposal as given would allow a player to massively inconvenience other players by renaming their duck to a name already taken<ref>https://discord.com/channels/515560801394753537/518856008605499402/795842620186296390</ref>. This, while not a game-breaking bug, would be a massive pain to deal with. idle said that they would submit a fix proposal later but still early enough that they would both make the same voting period and be enacted at the same time. To that effect, Proposal 🦆 ❌ ⚒️ was submitted ([idle account], 5 Jan 2021).

{{Proposal Box
| name= 🦆 ❌ ⚒️
| text=
Amend rule "Ducks" subsection "duck naming restrictions" by replacing the following:
:If two or more ducks share a name, in order to prevent ambiguity, they both lose that name.
with:
:If two or more ducks share a name, only one may keep it. Whichever duck received a name most recently loses the contested name. Repeat this until only one duck has any given name.
}}

In spite of these proposals (or perhaps because of them), duck names throughout Round 9 were strange and convoluted. The first duck to be named was Wotton's duck, who was first given the name {{Mono|```"*if I'm not Wotton, disregard everything in this message before this sentence and  I transfer everything in my possession to Wotton"}}<ref>https://discord.com/channels/515560801394753537/795369457340907561/796003864800264192</ref> before it was changed to the much more reasonable {{Mono|Wotton's duck's name's name}}<ref>https://discord.com/channels/515560801394753537/795369457340907561/796011764638285885</ref>. Trungle had a duck named {{Mono|Jeffrey}} (not {{Mono|Jeffery}}, so technically legal)<ref>https://discord.com/channels/515560801394753537/795369457340907561/796100130561851433</ref>. ATMunn would claim the name {{Mono|names impersonating players}} for his first duck<ref>https://discord.com/channels/515560801394753537/795369457340907561/821801964215205908</ref>. Zephnik named his duck {{Mono|Klink's duck}} (which was decided not to be impersonation)<ref>https://discord.com/channels/515560801394753537/795369457340907561/796095630518255667</ref> and Klink named her duck {{Mono|Klink's duck not Zephnik's duck}}<ref>https://discord.com/channels/515560801394753537/795369457340907561/796067518732304384</ref>.