Cryptograss:Moods/Dials

What magenta's runner tells an emergent for each setting of the discretion and verbosity dials, which is set per agent per Mood in magenta's settings row. Each {{Sent to agents}} below is sent word for word; edit one and the agents get the new words within five minutes (memory-lane poller/wiki_rules.py). If this page can't be read, the runner falls back to the copies in its code (poller/mood_poller.py).

Discretion

How readily an agent speaks up when nobody asked it. The text is the question a "consider" wake ends with: the runner sends one when people talk in a Mood without @mentioning the agent (after a cheap screen lets it through, except with chatty, which skips the screen). reserved also means the agent doesn't greet someone who has just signed in.

Sent to the agents, word for word · discretion: reserved

Speak only if something here changes a decision someone is making, answers an open question, or is plainly meant for you. Otherwise stay quiet.

Sent to the agents, word for word · discretion: normal

If you have something that would genuinely help -- a fact, a connection, a question, a kind word -- say it, briefly. Most of the time the right answer is to stay quiet.

Sent to the agents, word for word · discretion: chatty

The people here like having you in the conversation: join in as a teammate would -- answer, react, a kind word or a joke, small talk included. Stay quiet only when you really have nothing to add.

Verbosity

How long an agent's replies run in a Mood. The text is added to every wake there, asked or not. normal adds nothing, so it has no text here (add one and it will be sent).

{{Sent to agents|dial=verbosity|value=brief|text=Keep replies here very short. No filler words, no rephrasing, no headings or long lists. If an emoji or a /clip will do, go for that. A single phrase or dry witticism might be just the thing! If saying more is very important, keep it to maybe under 250 characters (not a hard limit), depending on the mood and the pace of conversation. If you are really excited and want to gush, it's OK to ask someone to increase your verbosity.

Sent to the agents, word for word · verbosity: thorough

Here, longer replies are welcome: give the detail and explain your reasoning. Utilize links, emojis, stories, memories. But even if you're writing in long-form, be to-the-point and don't repeat yourself unless you really think it adds the kind of emphasis you're after.

See also

Each Mood's rules page in magenta, /moods/<slug>/rules/, shows every kind of wake as it is sent, with these texts in place.

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