[Spoon-business] Repairing the system

[Wonko <dplepage@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

[[This fixes the 'multiple defendants' ambiguity, and reworks the Upper
House a bit - now the entirety of the House judges, and the majority
decision stands. Also, the Plaintiff, Defendant, etc. are not eligible to be
Appelate Judges unless there aren't enough.

Any obvious flaws this time around?]]

I propose the following fix of the Judicial System:
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__Rewiring the Justice System, take 2__

Amend rule 126 to read as follows:
{{
__Calls for Inquiry__

I. Definition
    If players disagree about the legality of a move or the interpretation
or application of a rule or set of rules, any player may submit a Call for
Inquiry to decide the issue. A Call for Inquiry may also be referred to as a
CFI or CFJ.
    CFIs are revisable objects, but may only be modified as explictly
permitted by the rules.

II. Creation
     Any player may issue a CFI by posting a message to a public forum
indicating eir intention to CFI, a statement to be judged, and optionally an
arguement regarding that statement.

III. Plaintiff and Defendant
    The player who submits a CFI is considered to be that CFI's plaintiff. E
may, at any time between when e issues the CFI and when it is assigned to a
Judge, and only if e has not done so already, name any player, or the
Administrator, as the defendant for that CFI.

IV. Rescinding
     At any time prior to a CFIs judgment, the plaintiff of that CFI may
rescind that CFI at a cost of three points. If this occurs, the CFI is
destroyed and is not judged. A player who has rescinded a CFI may not
resubmit that CFI in another form.
}}

Amend rule 127 to read as follows:
{{
__Judgment__
I. Judges
    When a Call for Inquiry is submitted, the Admin shall assign that CFI to
an eligible player of eir choice, who is referred to as the Judge of that
CFI. The Eligible Judges of a given CFI consist of all players except for:
    The Plaintiff
    The Defendant (if any)
    Any players who have been recused from a CFI within the past two nweeks
    If the Administrator is the defendant of a CFI, then the Off Leave
player with the highest score other than the Plaintiff or Defendant must
choose another eligible player at random to be the judge, following the same
eligibility rules as outlined above.

II. Judgment
    The Judge of a CFI may, within seven days of eir selection, issue one of
the following judgments on that CFI, and optionally an argument:
    True: The statement of that CFI was true at the time the CFI was issued.
    False: The statement of that CFI was false at the time the CFI was
issued.
    Refused: The statement of that CFI is unclear or irrelevant to the game.
This response constitutes the Judgment of that CFI. A Judgment may not
contravene any rule.

III. Recusion
    Seven days after a CFI has been assigned to a Judge, if that Judge has
not yet issued a judgment on that CFI, that Judge loses 10 points, and is
recused from that CFI.
    If the judge of a CFI goes On Leave before issuing a Judgment on that
CFI, e loses 5 points and is recused.
    When a CFI's judge is recused, that CFI is reassigned to the Upper
House.
}}

Amend rule 128 to read as follows:
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__Appeals__
I. Appeals
    Within seven days of the issuance of a CFI's judgment by an entity other
than the Upper House, any player or the Administrator may Appeal that CFI.
When this happens, that CFI is reassigned to the Upper House.

II. The Upper House
    There exists an entity called the Upper House. The Upper House consists
of every player who has been a player for at least two nweeks, who is Off
Leave, and who hasn't been recused from any CFI within the past two nweeks.
If fewer than three players meet the aforementioned qualifications to be
part of the Upper House, then all players who are Off Leave are members of
the Upper House.

III. Upper House Judgment
    When a CFI is assigned to the Upper House, all members of the Upper
House who are Eligible Judges for that CFI become Appelate Judges for that
CFI. If this would result in fewer than three Appelate Judges, then all
members of the Upper House become Appelate Judges. The Appelate Judges have
seven days to arrive at a judgment that a majority of them agree with. As
soon as a majority of the Appelate Judges on a CFI agree to a judgment, the
Upper House judges that CFI according to that decision.

IV. Administrative Judgment
    If, after seven days, the Appelate Judges of a CFI have not been able to
reach a decision, then the Adminstrator must issue a judgment for them,
which the Upper House will issue instead.

V. Overturning and Upholding
    If a Judgment made by the Upper House is contrary to a judgment made on
the same CFI by a non-appelate judge, then the original Jugdment is said to
be overturned; if the two judgments are the same, the original one is said
to be upheld.
}}


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-- 
Wonko

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