[Discuss] Change to vulgarity?

[Rob McDonald]

On 12/11/07, Talita CS <talitacs at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Dec 11, 2007 3:35 PM, James <TheKobald at tampabay.rr.com> wrote:
> > I was thinking of a potential change to the vulgarity option.  First,
> > only people who have been successfully tired for vulgarity can have
> > their nobility questioned as the rumors are already there the king just
> > has to expand on them.  Second, if you have been successfully tried for
> > vulgarity too many times (either over the course of your character or in
> > a short period) you cannot run for certain positions, the higher the
> > position the less times you need to have been tried for it.  As people
> > start to doubt that you are in fact a noble.
>
> James, I see such a large room for abuse here. Also, vulgarity is
> still so uncertain in people's minds that the concept of not being
> noble-like changes a lot from case to case. I think having criteria to
> be allowed to strip nobles of their nobility is nice, but I certainly
> do not like of the criteria you propose to have people allowed to
> positions. Maybe except if vulgarity trials vanish after a while,
> after all, gossip also is forgotten after some time. Yet, I can
> imagine many people charging someone with vulgarity close to elections
> just to see this person not eligible. If they manage to win just a few
> of those charges, the damage is done...
>
> Talita
> Bluelake


Surely this would count as obvious abuse, so it could be easily
clamped down on. It couldn't be hard to miss a load of accusations of
vulgarity being levelled at the same person within
a short space of time. Besides, if it was made so that each message could
only be claimed to be vulgar once, then it would mean to even do this,
people would have to claim vulgarity on numerous messages at once, making it
even less likely to succeed and easier to spot.
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