Re: [spoon-discuss] Re: [Spoon-business] Society Tweaking again!

[Daniel Lepage <dplepage@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Monday, June 16, 2003, at 10:49  PM, Glotmorf wrote:

> On 6/16/03 at 10:39 PM bd wrote:
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> > On Monday 16 June 2003 10:28 pm, Daniel Lepage wrote:
> > > 2. A list of restrictions on its members. Its members may not perform
> > > any actions that the society forbids them from doing. No Society's
> > > Charter may outright forbid a member from leaving the society, nor 
> > > may
> > > it impose unreasonable restrictions on leaving. [[ Whether a
> > > restriction is unreasonable is left to the Courts, but common sense 
> > > is
> > > advised - giving back the Speeder given out by the society is
> > > reasonable, but listing the last ten names in the Siberian Yellow 
> > > Pages
> > > is not. ]]
> >
> > No - players must be able to leave a society *period*. Use some other
> > mechanism for returning items.
>
> Perhaps societal possessions aren't exactly possessed by its members 
> as much as members have an "account" with a society, and societal 
> possessions are either free to be used as needed or assigned to 
> members' accounts.  That way, if a member leaves a society, e forfeits 
> eir account.  It's not as much a question of giving back items as it 
> is not possessing them in the first place.
>
> Or this could be a *gasp* standard method.

The restrictions on quitting are not merely intended as a mechanism for 
returning borrowed goods; if that were the case, a better method could 
easily be devised. There are a number of reasons why a society might 
not want to let a member go immediately. Restrictions could include 
returning items, leaving certain Grid regions, setting up some sort of 
Offer to ensure that a given proposal is voted for, giving at least 
three ndays notice before quitting...

If you fear being trapped by a society, remember that you can choose 
not to join any society with restrictions you don't want to meet. 
Remember also that Dave can veto any attempt to establish harsher 
restrictions while you're a member, and that anything too absurd is 
likely to be CFI'd down.

--
Wonko

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