[Discuss] Banning Characters

[Rob McDonald]

On 6/9/08, Robert Croson, Jr <robert at arcm.com> wrote:
>
> On 9 Jun 2008 at 15:40, Rob McDonald wrote:
>
> > On 6/9/08, struik at t-online.de <struik at t-online.de> wrote:
>
> > > Tom Vogt wrote:
> > > >Ban her for wearing inappropriate socks to your dinner party, if
> > > >you want. You can be as arbitrary as you like, as long as the other
> > > >PLAYER knows that the reason isn't his inactivity. What you do to
> > > >his CHARACTER I don't care about, the Inalienable Rights are there
> > > >to protect players, not characters.
>
>
> > I agree with this. What stops unscrupulous players
> > banning/fining another player for inactivity/recruiting wrongly/being
> > the wrong class and then just giving the reason as that they were
> > wearing the wrong socks to a dinner party/had a stupid haircut?
>
>
> What stops people from using such stupidity is: the players.
>
> If a judge in a realm I am in banned someone for wearing stupid socks or
> having a bad haircut, I would personally organize a protest campaign to
> remove
> that judge from power. It may not work, but you can bet that by the time I
> was
> done, that judge would be regretting the day he decided to do something so
> stupid. I would like to think that there are other people that have the
> same
> opinion, and would do the same.
>
> (And, no, I don't play in realms where wearing a pink tutu (or is that
> *not*
> wearing a pink tutu?) will get you banned. That kind of nonsense isn't for
> me.)
>
>
>
> --
> Rob
>
> The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.




The problem is if the reason is a more subtle one that makes more sense, but
is just covering for the real one. The thread this discussion stemmed
from involved Timothy talking about how his character was looking for an
excuse to ban the other, and how he would have just found one eventually.
It's unlikely that one so silly would be made up, but a more
robust one along the lines of 'insulted me privately' or something, followed
up with forged letter copies, which have been discussed in previous threads.
It wouldn't take very long at all to do, looks realistic and is hard to
fault because there's no way of knowing if the copies are forged or not
from the outside.
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