(07-30-2018, 06:22 PM)Cormac Wrote: This seems like a good time to point out that we already have a flexible system in which the Delegate and the CLS can decide penalties for disruption of the community, and if 3/4 of the Assembly finds those penalties too harsh, it can overturn them.
The system we already have in place is far preferable to a rigid system of strictly defined crimes and penalties. A system that never works out well in any Feeder or Sinker. Feeder and Sinker courts are dysfunctional hot messes when it comes to criminal trials.
The unique feature of an NS region as opposed to any other online community is the realistic political system in which players can participate. We could replace the constitution, the Assembly and the court with a single administrator and the mods he/she selects. That would be efficient and effective. It would also be dead boring.
In the spirit of Lazarus being distinguishable from a minecraft server, each citizen must be able to pursue justice for criminal offences in a similar manner to how they would IRL. The role of the CLS should be limited to the requirements imposed by game mechanics as much as possible.
At the very least this bill will prove that the Assembly is able to democratically challenge a major feature of the constitution, which was undemocratically imposed. It shall be a test of the kind of region that is being built here.