DIS: Proto for referee

2016-10-19 Thread Aris Merchant
A tad unrelated, but just to bring up one of my ideas that's been siting around for a while... What does everyone think about bringing back criminal cases in some way? Obviously not if the situation is uncontested, (I think there have always been exemptions, or perhaps alternate procedures for that

DIS: Ideas from a bastion of democracy

2016-10-19 Thread Aris Merchant
On Wed, Oct 19, 2016 at 7:42 PM, Alexis Hunt > wrote: > It has occurred to me that Agora is perhaps not the paragon of democracy > that it should strive to be. There are many examples of excellent > democracies out there, including the World's Greatest Democracy, with which > we are now all intima

DIS: Ideas from a bastion of democracy

2016-10-19 Thread Alexis Hunt
It has occurred to me that Agora is perhaps not the paragon of democracy that it should strive to be. There are many examples of excellent democracies out there, including the World's Greatest Democracy, with which we are now all intimately familiar regardless of whether we'd like to be or not. Wit

Re: DIS: Proto for referee

2016-10-19 Thread Nicholas Evans
You might want to take a look at the discussion for the economic proposal - part of it would include punishments you have to pay off. In general, we have to be careful with punishments though. Making someone a less capable player, or stigmatizing them, is not very likely to encourage them to do th

DIS: Proto for referee

2016-10-19 Thread Alexis Hunt
I haven't worked on the exact wording, but I would like to ask others' opinions on this: Make the Referee into more of a vigilante system. Players can propose cards to the Referee, and the Referee is responsible for basically giving them approval. I think there should be a Card (or Cards) which im