Currently, the criminal justice system works as follows: a player (the accused) does something that another player (the accusor) thinks might violate the rules; the accusor purports to note the infraction; the Referee determines whether the infraction occurred, based on a preponderance of the evidence (and wasn't forgiven for some other reason), and if so, investigates it.
There's a distinction between "crime wasn't committed" and "crime was committed, but we can't prove it", but it ends up in most cases making no difference. If the crime wasn't committed, the attempt to note the infraction fails. If it was committed unprovably, the attempt to note the infraction succeeds, but the infraction is automatically forgiven and thus it can't be investigated, and both of these cases are the same from the accused's point of view (in particular, there is no penalty applied). However, these cases are not quite the same from the Referee's point of view: eir report "contains a list of noted and investigated Infractions". If this is interpreted as two lists – one of noted infractions, and one of investigated infractions – then e needs for reporting purposes to determine whether an infraction actually occurred in order to determine whether it was correctly noted (even though this makes no difference, because what matters is whether the infraction was investigated or not). The sentence could be interpreted as requiring a single list, of infractions that were both noted and investigated, but that would also produce undesirable effects (the Referee could investigate an un-noted infraction and then it wouldn't show up on the list). I'd like to fix this situation, but am not sure what the best fix would be. Some possibilities: * list investigated infractions, and do not specifically list infractions that were noted but not investigated; * list investigated infractions, plus attempts to note an infraction (regardless of whether or not those attempts were successful); * allow attempts to note actions/inactions/attempted actions to succeed even if the noted occurrence is not an infraction, and have the Referee's report report on such notings, but with such a noting having no other consequence There might be other possibilities too! Does anyone have suggestions on the best way to do it? -- ais523 Referee
