On Wednesday, May 27, 2020 5:00:58 PM CDT Kerim Aydin via agora-discussion wrote: > > I personally really liked the cards system and would like to bring > > parts of it back, but I wasn't around in 2016, so I'll happily defer > > to others. > > Well that last bit sucked for the referee - it meant the referee had to > look at literally everything, reports, lateness of judgements, etc. to > certify that there were no violations. The referee would sometimes commit > a minor infraction and award emself a green card because that was easier. > > Other than that and other minor tweaks I think it worked well and I liked > it. IIRC the reason we got rid of it wasn't because it was bad, it was > the desire to commodify punishment to include in the economy?
Referee Cards were fun, and there's no reason they couldn't work with an asset system like the upcoming Sets (except for the confusion of names). You'd just make Green and Yellow payable with different amounts of Blot-B-Gones, and Red would probably not be payable at all. In fact, it may be a good idea to have two separate tiers of crimes anyway: small infractions that earn you some blots, and serious ones that come with a punishment you can't pay off. I think that'd reconcile the ideas of "justice as a game mechanic" and "justice as a way to deal with bad faith actors/actions." -- nch
