Brief: One of the twenty adopters has been randomly selected to assume the secret role of Volunteer and was given the opportunity to receive a -1 to their token total, bringing them to just 1 token in the game. This person is now the least likely to be chosen in the draw.
Proposition: The Volunteer was given the opportunity to receive a -1 to their token total, as promised in the Adopter Rule in the beginning post.
They have accepted this result and followed through with the proposition.One person of the twenty will be chosen to have the opportunity to see their amount of tokens reduced to 1.
The Volunteer Role
As was stated in the original post, one person of the twenty now has the opportunity to get to just 1 token in the draw!
Someone has now been drawn to assume the Volunteer role. This is a permanent role, meaning that they are no longer eligible for future roles that will come up in the contest.
This is known as a secret role. In other words, their name will not be announced to the public immediately (and neither will the full results) and it is highly recommended they do not mention to anyone that they have been chosen.
All twenty tokens must be distributed. If they are not, a default penalty will be assessed and applied to everyone on the list (raising fellow adopters to 25 tokens instead of the previous 2, and raising the Volunteer to a total of 5).
Essentially, imagine that they have 20 deciding tokens of their own. One is a "-1" that is already used on their own name. The other 19 are "+1" tokens that have to be assigned to names on the list in the first post in the topic. Their name is considered as "-1" and this cannot be changed apart from the penalty being weighed against everyone.
THE VOLUNTEER'S RULES (assuming no penalties):
- The total number of distributed tokens will be 19 (uninclusive of penalties). You will automatically (assuming you complete the task succesfully) be considered "-1" to account for 20 total changes.
- You may give more than the requisite tokens (as explained next) to one other user. However, all 19 must be distributed in the end. You cannot take all of the tokens onto yourself. Either you distribute them at will, or risk having everyone penalized.
- Two users must have no change whatsoever in their total to avoid having the penalty assessed to everyone. In other words, at minimum, two people will be unaffected by your distribution and will remain at 2 and while at least two others will have at least 4. Beyond that, not all of the tokens can be dumped onto one user. To put it bluntly: You control who is the least likely to be chosen in the end and can help a certain amount of users retain their standing 2 token advantage.
- If any of the guidelines here are knowingly violated, the penalty will be incurred at the deadline assuming a suitable answer has not been given in that timeframe.
If no suitable answer is given in 24 hours, the penalty will be assessed and the population of Adopters will go from the least likely to be chosen to the most.
Results: The full results remain confidential to protect the identity of the role holder. End results by the numbers:
- 1 user with a result of -1 tokens
- 6 users with a result of +0 tokens
- 8 users with a result of +1 tokens
- 4 users with a result of +2 tokens
- 1 user with a result of +3 tokens
UPDATE as Proposition #2 gets underway:
The user that received +3 in the course of the first proposition was xpon.
