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I decided to commit my own original sin, one of disobedience to the powers that be, by way of coining my own SF0 currency and renouncing the vote system. Non-confrontational disobedience. A creative way to play around the restrictive structures, but still an instance of taking the reins in one hand and the machete in the other.

But first,

Gratuitous musing/bitching, which is also sinful, but definitely not original (whining is #49 of the 70 major sins in Islam) 100% skippable, though.
The new rules might be all right considering that this is Everyday Life after all, and, you see, that´s exactly how it is in lowercase everyday life: you get to do a considerable amount of useless stuff you don´t really want to do for the privilege to get a number of arbitrary pieces of paper or metal or bytes that you can then choose to use for doing good/significant/meaningful things. Or to give to others.
BUT. I am fed up, you hear?, fed up with meekingly going along with rules that delay what I can actually do that doesn´t totally suck. In lowercase everyday life, of course.
AND. Since this is an interface, a new representation for the data that's already there, well, I can start reacting here, changing the code here, so it will trickle down into the lowercase mirror.
"But-but it is their game and if you don´t like it you don´t have to play. The door, you see, is wide open.." Of course it´s their game and they get to make and change the rules. So familiar. The means of production. If you don´t like it you can go, we need the room, you know?


So, the currency? Is a virtual Pancho Villa peso, with the Phrygian cap that shines, freedom radiating all around.


It has the admiration value of regular full-size vote. It is designed to be deposited in a comment box (I am not smart enough to figure a way to place it elsewhere) in what I consider a deserving praxis.

OK, now. As pretty as my Villa pesos could be, I am afraid they ´ll do squat for anyone´s score: an idle symbol, tokens from a tantrum, they are doomed to stir some smiles and/or rolling eyes, at best***.
(Which actually works in my favor in the context of this task. See, sin in classical Greek is hamartia (ἁμαρτία), "to miss the mark", as in archery. Which is just what I am doing here. Trying but not quite getting there. So, sinning allright. And the sin committed also fulfills the criteria for the worst kind of Jewish sins: Pesha, an intentional sin; an action committed in deliberate defiance of God (aka as SSI in these lands).
Finally, I claim that coining your own currency is original in the sense that is not committed as often as it should.
I hope those are enough technicalities to keep the flags away).

And now for some practical consequences
Starting now, I´ll be voting with virtual Pancho Villa pesos (VPVPs) only, so I don´t have to worry about not having enough till the end of the week/month/Era.
Yep, I, the ultimate vote-monkey, am giving up official voting altogether, renouncing to that part of the SFØ formal economy. And I plead you all to consider me out of it on the other side too: DON´T YOU VOTE FOR MY TASKS! IT WOULD ONLY DRAIN VOTE-POINTS!

***But I will be setting up a VOTE-POINT PIGGIE BANK (I intend to task quite a bit this Era, what with getting MXØ off the ground and all) from which emergency votes could be donated to friends that find themselves voteless in front of an awesome praxis. Maybe the VPVPs will become handy there, somehow. Maybe trading votes for lateral task exchanges. Or something. The informal economy rules.


UPDATE: The VOTE-POINT PIGGIE BANKis ready to give vote-points to the bearers of virtual Pancho Villa pesos (VPVP). Send me a message stating which completion do you want to vote for and how many points do you want to award. There are currently 147 in the vault, so let's put them to good use.
(And is not that I'm going to be very strict with the VPVPs either: if you want some vote-points drop me a line, I have some). Sorta like the guys throwing dollar bill airplanes.


LAST UPDATE: Nah, my idea of a votepoint give away is a failure. I guess it goes against the whole spirit of voting: stamping one's player picture at the bottom of something we liked. But since no one really cares if I said I wasn't going to vote this Era I am deciding that I won't care either, so I'll distribute my votepoints among the task that I had given VPVPs to. But should I do that now or at the end of the Era? I suck at money choices too.