[Discuss] Kicking with no proof

[Timothy Collett]

On May 21, 2007, at 6:40 AM, Tom Vogt wrote:
> I would like to suggest adding a simple rule to the kicking page:  
> If you ban someone, it MUST be for something he did or said.  
> Absolutely no other ban reasons are acceptable. Any and all  
> bannings that do not include a reason telling what the banned  
> character did or said will result in a dead judge character.
>
>
> Frankly, this paranoia is destroying the game. If you don't like  
> "spies", the game gives you more than enough tools with message  
> groups, armies, hierarchy and allegiance to restrict the  
> information flow. Just because you are too lazy and use "all realm"  
> for every crap doesn't give you the right to destroy the game for  
> others.

I don't like the paranoia, either, but I don't think this is the  
answer.  This will make Judges petrified to try banning anyone-- 
especially if there's no one thing the noble in question has done,  
but a slow accumulation of small infractions that show their  
character to be undesirable.

It will also make it impossible to roleplay a powermad judge...or a  
Tilogean judge--one who bans on a whim, because he doesn't like the  
colour of someone's tunic, or the way someone whistles when they walk.

I think a better idea would be to do one of two things (neither of  
which I immediately have a good way of doing, but I'll think about  
it): either make spying much harder to do, so people don't have to be  
as afraid of it--or do something to explicitly legitimize it and/or  
make it easier, so it becomes so rampant there's simply no way to  
stop it.

Timothy Collett
Anaris Family

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