Posted by Kajikit on July 28, 2003 at 19:46:15:
In Reply to: When sex, death and poetry grow dull posted by Al on July 28, 2003 at 09:42:33:
: A possible solution:
: What if you were randomly and very infrequently allowed to play God with the information? Perhaps the ability to select snip points in or to add a word to or subtract a word from one of the Top 10 to create a new poem to be added to the pool. This might encourage the more compulsive of us to keep driving evolution even in the face of a homogenous and slowly evolving pool and might also have the benefit of introducing variation to prevent the pool from stagnating. There is obvious potential for abuse if too much free reign is allowed but even that might be sustainable if the changes were only allowed on a very very infrequent basis.
That would be fun! For every thousand button clicks you get to add or subtract a word from a poem :) It would keep me going anyway... I might get to be the one to introduce a new word to the genepool or to say 'break this line HERE'!