Here it is my idea to make DP more transparent and to help people guide themself on...
Singh's DP Manifesto
Have our DP's failed us ?
Each and everyone of them has been a good citizen. Most of them helping others and trying to mediate conflicts, rather successfully. So they have been good.
Some Time ago there was much discussion about how to establish rules, or a Code of Conduct which was suposed to become the guideline for the DP's to base their decisions on or conduct investigative research. A law for it was drafted and eventually voted on and implemented in "testing status". CoC's could be written and submitted but they lacked voting power.
What have the DP's collectively done to implement an alternate system? Have they themself created rules and published them? Have they done anything to give people a clear guide as to what might be punishable and to what extend ? I believe not (otherwise I should know about it, right? ).
Please be advised that this "draft" should be discussed, revised, improved and/or changed to make it the best possible working guide. And a guide is all it should be. Individual situations need individual approaches and not everything steted her will fit every situation.
Thank you for reading, comments appreciated.
So here is my proposal:
Points of Conduct:
Griefance:
(in case of explosive use, each explosive counts as 1 offense, unless in a case of tt/cs use multiple explosive detonate at the same time)
Punishments:
Possible additions: Verbal abuse, extreme gaming of Tests
Bans could be exchanged for jail time of the same time periods.
People can not on and chat during jail time but are restricted to a small island
Accumulated points degrade by 1 for each RL week (count-down begins the following sunday), giving every player a chance of forgiveness. Forgiven points count from oldest offense reduced first. So a repeat offense will stay a long time on the agenda.
DP's may asign 1-5 Forgiveness Points if the offender shows reasonable effort to correct the damage that has been done. "reasonable" shall be open do any dp's own definition.
All DP Actions shall be recorded on a DP newsletter on wiki (along with points awarded and punishments)