La xinga wrote:Unibot III wrote:This was a really good update! Lots of interesting policy discussions - raising the cap, IRV, anti-griefing legislation, RMB Act. Cool. I'm a bit surprised that people would want to try folks for summary offences like spamming - I think that was the intention of folks in TSP early on was the Minister of Justice was to serve as some kind of "Justice of the Peace," but it proved far far too cumbersome to set a trial for those kinds of offences - especially when the judiciary was expanded. The introduction of a third order of government in TSP, the Local Council, brought an end to that problem by devolving game-side moderation to a local council elected directly by residents.
That kind of reform would address the unity problem (RMB vs. Forum) mentioned in your previous update, but also the problem of representation and jurisdiction. I think it's a symptom of democratic growing pains when you have two distinct, cultural communities emerging between the forums and the RMB. It's not sustainable to try to pipe all in-game moderation issues through a forum-based process when so few residents actually participate on the forums - 'moderation cultures' will clash and accusations of elitism are common.
Who is the minister of of justice?
Back in the olden days, when George W Bush was President and I was a wee one, TSP had an elected Minister of Justice that heard all cases and reference questions in TSP. Then this role was split with a High Court (that decided cases) and a Minister of Justice (chief prosecutor). Then the Minister of Justice position was removed entirely because it was too adversarial but the High Court continued to hear cases. What I was saying was that the original intention (to try spam and in-game offences cases) drifted very quickly to only hearing forum-based, “political” offences because it was essentially impossible to document and try those cases on the forum — especially when the accused just... didn’t show up (or weren’t interested in joining the forums...).