A start. Just something. Some piece of code.

• perhaps an empty foolishness-mode,
• perhaps a couple detached foolisness-increment/decrement command hulls,
• perhaps alist,
• perhaps even crude paste of llm proposed code snippets

Just something, to show this is real already.

can merely

• increment foolishness
• decrement foolishness

once can increment/decrement,

• applies face(s)

once can increment/decrement foolishness,

• set/adjust configured breakpoint level of foolishness
• set/adjust configured effect of breakpoint (face/mute/ignore)
• have effect applied past breakpoint
• toggle breakpoint effect on/off

once increment/decrement, and foolishness faces,

• foolishness-face-scope: A variable that determines the scope of the foolishness faces, with possible values of 'nick, 'line, or 'whole-line.

where

nick

applies the foolishness-n face to nick only.

line

applies only to content said.

whole-line (~ rename... "all"?)

applies to whole line. nick, content, timestamp, whatever appears on the line.

• foolishness-face-method: A variable that determines the method for generating foolishness faces, with possible values of 'static or 'gradient.

where

static

foolishness face levels are manually configured. levels beyond configured default to foolish-face.

and

gradient

foolilshness face levels are calculated across a range.
e.g. if #999 & #333 are chosen as gradient colours, and increments cause foolishness level 7, then each level would be split between #999, #888, #777, #666, #555, #444 and #333.

Once/along-with increment/decrement,

• foolishness: A function that displays the foolishness level of a given nickname, or the nicks on a given level, or moves a nickname to a given level.

Example Usage:

M-x foolishness : interactive prompt accessing all foolishness functions. M-x foolishness 3 : display nicks on level 3. M-x foolishness Digit : displays foolishness level of the nick "Digit" M-x foolishness Digit 1 : moves the nick "Digit" to foolishness level 1. M-x foolishness 1 Digit : moves the nick "Digit" to foolishness level 1. M-x foolishness Digit +1 : same as M-x foolishness-increment [RET] Digit [RET] M-x foolishness Digit -2 : same as M-x foolishness-decrement [RET] Digit [RET] twice.