I read through the conversation between you and goldsquare above and...my head hurts. :P
A concern that I have that may be valid or may show that I am missing the point: you are considered the Authority on these things. If you use a hierarchy, there may be some who will point to that as documentation (of a sort) that "Y descended from X: the game started as X and morphed into Y over time."
As an Authority on this topic, you need to be careful how you present the information. If you have some good documentation that, purely hypothetical example, "Briton-Tossing" evolved from "Gaul-Tossing" as the Romans expanded their empire and found more people to toss for points, than a hierarchy makes sense, and it should be presented that way. If the Romans invented Gaul-Tossing, and it appears that the Picts invented Briton-Tossing along the same lines but independently of the Romans, that's not a hierarchy, and you risk confusing someone who relies on you too much as an authority. So you might want a different way to present those cases.
I hope I am making sense, and I hope you haven't totally lost me.
No Gauls or Britons were harmed in the making of this example. We do not condone and do not practice the actual tossing of Gauls or Britons at sanctioned events. Anyone who wishes to participate in simulated tossing must have authorized in the specific type of tossing they wish to recreate and carry their signed authorization card at all times. Please sign the waiver.
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Date: 2013-08-09 07:11 pm (UTC)A concern that I have that may be valid or may show that I am missing the point: you are considered the Authority on these things. If you use a hierarchy, there may be some who will point to that as documentation (of a sort) that "Y descended from X: the game started as X and morphed into Y over time."
As an Authority on this topic, you need to be careful how you present the information. If you have some good documentation that, purely hypothetical example, "Briton-Tossing" evolved from "Gaul-Tossing" as the Romans expanded their empire and found more people to toss for points, than a hierarchy makes sense, and it should be presented that way. If the Romans invented Gaul-Tossing, and it appears that the Picts invented Briton-Tossing along the same lines but independently of the Romans, that's not a hierarchy, and you risk confusing someone who relies on you too much as an authority. So you might want a different way to present those cases.
I hope I am making sense, and I hope you haven't totally lost me.
No Gauls or Britons were harmed in the making of this example. We do not condone and do not practice the actual tossing of Gauls or Britons at sanctioned events. Anyone who wishes to participate in simulated tossing must have authorized in the specific type of tossing they wish to recreate and carry their signed authorization card at all times. Please sign the waiver.