[Discuss] Friendly secessions

[Timothy Collett]

On Jun 3, 2007, at 2:51 PM, Tom Vogt wrote:
> Christopher Subich schrieb:
>> Justice has never worked behind closed doors.
>
> Wrong assumption, wrong conclusion.
>
> And almost everything with an all-quantor in it is by definition  
> false.

If it looks like a duck, and walks like a duck, and quacks like a  
duck, you'll have to forgive us for not believing you no matter how  
many times you tell us it's a walrus.

>> Your arguments make sense to a point, but so long as all aspects  
>> of (for want of a better term) the Battlemaster judiciary are kept  
>> private, there can never be resolution.  That's why group-grudges,  
>> like this 'Plergoth OOC kerfuffle', perpetuate.
>
> And you really, honestly, believe they wouldn't otherwise? Oh,  
> please. There are grudge-groups in the real world, where we have an  
> open court system, just as much. The complaints are the same. "It's  
> unfair", "it is one-sided", "I don't agree", "it hurts my  
> interestes", etc.

If we could see all the times that the Titans had resolved perfectly  
ordinary cases, getting everything more or less right, then the  
majority who are *not* disgruntled by their immediate actions can  
tell the minority who *are* to shut the heck up.  As it is, we have  
no way of knowing *what* they decide.  And in this particular case,  
if, as some people have said, their original decision was that the  
influx of players did not warrant more than a warning, we can point  
that out, and so put a stop to the people saying that they totally  
ignored the reports.

>> The Titan system might not be broken, but it's definitely  
>> incomplete.  I have a couple ideas regarding that, but that'd take  
>> this post too far off-topic.
>
> Frankly, if I had enough time to code every good idea, I would be  
> studied by scientists because they want to understand the time- 
> bending powers that can put a week into 24 hours.

But you have time to contemplate, and even code, features that such  
an overwhelming majority of people dislike that you have to remove  
them only a week or so later.

I understand that it's your game, Tom, but your belligerence in this  
is quite incomprehensible to us.

Timothy Collett
Anaris Family

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