The Beerocracy Constitution
The rules
Everything the sheet decides on your behalf, and why. Nothing here is a setting — it is just what the buttons mean.
Article I
The week
A sheet covers one ISO week and is wiped clean every Monday at 00:00. Nothing is deleted — each vote is filed under its week — so last week is still there, it just no longer counts.
Article II
Days
Tapping a day cycles it: yes, maybe, then nothing.
- A maybe counts. It is a body in the pub, so it adds to the day's total exactly like a yes.
- It is counted separately too. A day held up entirely by maybes is visibly shakier than one everybody committed to — solid bar for yes, hatched for maybe.
- Ties go to certainty, then to the weekend. Two days level on total: the one with fewer maybes wins. Still level: the day nearer the weekend, so Friday beats Monday. That always separates them, so the day is never left undecided.
Article III
Places
Everyone gets the same places in a different order.
- The deck is shuffled per person. Otherwise whatever sits at the top of the file gets judged while everyone is still interested and the bottom gets rushed. Your order is the same every time you open the sheet and changes each week.
- A place that is shut cannot win. The day and the place are picked together, so a Thursday-only brewery window is never proposed for a Tuesday. When the most-approved place cannot host the winning day, the sheet says so instead of quietly promoting the runner-up.
- Seasonal places retire themselves. A summer pop-up leaves the ballot the day after it closes.
- Only the people who will be there choose. Your swipes count when you are marked for the day that is winning — a maybe is enough. Not marked at all, or only free on other days, and they wait instead. They are kept and shown, never binned, and they join in the moment the day you are down for takes the lead.
Article IV
The outlook
The forecast covers 16:00 - 22:00 — the hours you would actually be out — rather than the whole day, whose high is usually set mid-afternoon and answers the wrong question.
The wording combines how much rain is expected with how likely it is. Neither number is much use alone: an evening can read 98% and expect 0.0mm, which is a high chance of nothing in particular.
| Chance | nothing measurable | under 1mm an hour | 1 to 4mm an hour | over 4mm an hour |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| under 25% | Dry | Dry | Maybe rain | Maybe heavy |
| 25 to 54% | Dry | Maybe drizzle | Maybe rain | Maybe heavy |
| 55 to 79% | Few drops | Drizzle | Rain | Heavy rain |
| 80% or more | Few drops | Drizzle | Rain | Heavy rain |
Anything from Rain rightwards counts as wet, and an outdoor place proposed for a wet day gets a warning on the tally. It is a warning and not a veto — people are allowed to sit in the rain, they should just not be surprised by it.
Article V
The catalogue
The list of places is a file, not a database table, so adding your local is a pull request anyone can review.