The Syndicate

In short Newcomer is a weird thing to quantify objectively.

The only real issue I find with basing it of number of games is different people are comfortable at different frequencies of games played.
I know some people try to join even game that comes up and others might only play 1 every month or 2.
I'd say people also tend to join new games if they die early and not if they liver a while so the length of time you are alive is generally a pretty big influence on how often you play.

Syn wrote: ↑Fri Jan 07, 2022 8:14 pm one disadvantage of the newcomer award is that there's no difference between someone who joined in january and could play in 11 months of games and someone who joined in the latter half and only had a couple months of play before voting and then becoming ineligible

I'm not sure what a productive solution to that would be, though

I'd say realistically it'd probably be easiest to consider newcomers as either a 6 to 18 month period.
Those with less than half a year of playtime probably wont have a whole lot of games. I know I only like to be in 1 maybe 2 games at a time (if one game feels it might end soon) and games can both take a while to start and finish.
I've had 3 games in the 2 and a half months I've been here I know. So it would make sense if people who joined near the end of the year might be considered again for the next voting.
Could also run a vote every 6 months as a compromise and have just a blanket newcomers for the first 2 votes since their join unless it was really close to the vote time. Kind of like a midyear vote and full year vote, though the volume of games doesn't really support that.
Another solution might be to just disallow newcomer votes for those with fewer than 3 or 6 months and add them to the next years vote instead, but at that point there really isn't harm in just adding them to both.

games we in fact played yes.

JaggedJimmyJay wrote: ↑Wed Jan 05, 2022 7:39 pm It's not hard to copy/paste a list and write names on it, sillies

I dunno. that seems like a lot of work.
(plus like I don't know most of this stuff still lol)