On Sun, 20 Oct 2019 at 05:37, Aris Merchant
<thoughtsoflifeandligh...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Currently, this sort of penalty is allowed for the Cold Hand of
> Justice, but not for Summary Judgement. That seems like an error to
> me. I'd be tempted to repeal the mandate entirely, but a) allowing
> non-players to join contracts is potentially fun; and, more
> importantly, b) the rules are still vulnerable to abuse by
> non-players in the same way they were back then. I also think the
> phrase "person who plays the game" seems messy and unnecessarily
> confusing (pretty characteristic of my writing in general, especially
> back then).
>
> I'd unify the Cold Hand of Justice and Summary Judgement
> on allowing the punishment of persons, on the grounds that a person
> who isn't involved with the game is unlikely to commit a rules
> violation. Alternatively, we could go the other direction, banning
> non-players from joining contracts but making them immune to
> prosecutions. The current state of affairs is definitely not great,
> and I'd like to thank Jason Cobb for bringing up the issue.
>
> [1] 
> https://mailman.agoranomic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/private/agora-discussion/2017-September/044934.html
>
>
> -Aris

With the adoption of Proposal 8250 (Finger Bending), I think the
Referee is no longer banned from pointing eir finger. Do we still need
summary judgement?

-- 
- Falsifian

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