Proposal: The Honor System

I humbly submit that certain rules are tedious to enforce, and ought to be self-enforced. To encourage self-enforcement, the following blockquoted text will be added as a rule entitled "The Honor System" if this proposal passes.

Any rule (or any clause of a rule) may assert that it is enforced under The Honor System. No rule may assert that any other rule or any clause of another rule is enforced under The Honor System. No rule may over-ride this paragraph of this rule.

If a Disciple (the Accuser) believes that a rule (or clause thereof) enforced under The Honor System has been broken by another Disciple (the Accused), then the Accuser may make call a Show Trial by making an official post with a title of the form "Show Trial: [Criminal Name], [RuleName]" where [Criminal Name] is the name of the Accused, and [RuleName] is the name of the rule broken. The post must describe the rule breakage, and present any necessary evidence.

A Disciple may be found Guilty or Innocent of a Show Trial allegation. The verdict is decided by a vote. The voting method to be followed is identical to the voting method for CfJs, specified in rule 6. A vote of of agreement corresponds to a Guilty vote, and a vote of disagreement corresponds to an Innocent vote.

A Disciple's vote must be solely determined by whether they agree or disagree that the Accused broke the specified rule. If a Disciple believes that the Accused has already been found Guilty for the specific infraction under a previous Show Trial, then e may vote Innocent. This paragraph of this rule is enforced under The Honor System.

If a Disciple has been found Guilty under a Show Trial, then they are Publicly Humiliated.

When a Disciple is Publicly Humiliated, eir Honor is reduced by 20. If eir Honor is less than 20 before the reduction, then their Honor is set to 0 and their Gold is reduced to make up for the excess penalty points. If their Gold is also insufficient, then their Knowledge is reduced in the same manner.

Eventually, I think rules involving comparing ones aspects to the Republic's aspect and decided whether or not to increase ones own aspects are good candidates for The Honor System. But let's see if the idea is palatable to others first.

Passes 8-3. Timed out, Enacted by Angry Grasshopper, 07/07/2005 20:15.