Post making contest 1.0

Categories:

• Simple Rules [inclusive and exclusive]
  
• Counting rules [greater than, less than, ranged continuous, ranged sporadic]
  
• Post specific rules [Post contextual, thread contextual]
  
• Self-referential rules
  

Post specific rules are rules that take into account things that are not within the poster's immediate control. Post contextual are things within a user's post like, post number, username, date/time stamps. Thread contextual are rules that take into account aspects of posts outside of the post being evaluated: the post before this one, the first post on the page, etc.

Self-referential rules are those that reference the ruleset itself. Rules are self-referential if their condition is dependent on the outcome of other rules. Non-self-referential rules are all evaluated independently of each other. Things like rule 3 is only broken if rule five is broken and x happens. DF's "post a zero if you don't break any rules." is an example of this, and one that can be difficult to identify.


Of course, the follow up for this is to see if we can come up with a reliable litmus test for each of these categories.