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Title: Magistrates becoming permanent?
Post by: Chaotrance13 on April 07, 2012, 01:24:09 PM
Here's a question guys - the Magistrate system has been regarded as a "testing" system for some time, and still is to my knowledge. With the changes to Stable coming up in the next few weeks, do you think we will see it become a permanent fixture in the Stable islands as well? I'm just interested because I was re-reading the old cases and saw that one where the Magistrates adjudicated a dispute on FEI, with the initial report being made on Dwilight.
Title: Re: Magistrates becoming permanent?
Post by: egamma on April 07, 2012, 01:43:57 PM
I like the Magistrate system.
Title: Re: Magistrates becoming permanent?
Post by: Tom on April 07, 2012, 03:29:07 PM
I don't recall any major complaints, so it seems the system is ok.

Title: Re: Magistrates becoming permanent?
Post by: Chenier on April 07, 2012, 05:24:13 PM
It hasn't dealt with an enormous quantity of cases either, though.

I might be biased, but I still hold a favorable view on the system.
Title: Re: Magistrates becoming permanent?
Post by: Indirik on April 07, 2012, 05:29:49 PM
I agree that for most things, the Magistrates should be fine.

I do think that multi-accounting investigations, though, should be handled by Titans/devs.
Title: Re: Magistrates becoming permanent?
Post by: Chenier on April 07, 2012, 05:30:52 PM
I agree that for most things, the Magistrates should be fine.

I do think that multi-accounting investigations, though, should be handled by Titans/devs.

Yes, because that requires investigation powers, which the titans have and the magistrates lack. As it should be.
Title: Re: Magistrates becoming permanent?
Post by: Geronus on April 07, 2012, 05:46:51 PM
I agree that for most things, the Magistrates should be fine.

I do think that multi-accounting investigations, though, should be handled by Titans/devs.

Really any allegations of outright cheating that would require investigation to prove one way or another. The Magistrates can handle the rest of the rules and IRs. Potentially also SMA violations, though I'm a little wary of that... It gets into fairly subjective territory.
Title: Re: Magistrates becoming permanent?
Post by: Indirik on April 07, 2012, 05:53:18 PM
Well, yes, SMA is subjective. But shouldn't that kind of thing be up to the community to police? Within certain guidelines established by Tom, it's up to the players to make of SMA what they can. SMA also, so far as I can tell, shouldn't require any investigative powers either.
Title: Re: Magistrates becoming permanent?
Post by: Tom on April 07, 2012, 06:20:54 PM
The Magistrates should be the place where ALL complaints go to. For cheating they may need help from the Dev Team to establish the facts, but I'd rather have one set of rules, one set of judges and one place to watch.

Title: Re: Magistrates becoming permanent?
Post by: Geronus on April 07, 2012, 06:45:43 PM
Well, so long as we're provided with the evidence I suppose I see no reason why we can't judge those cases as well. There are devs among the Magistrates, so I presume that in the event that such assistance was necessary, they would provide whatever we need, or ask one of the other devs (or Tom) to do so.
Title: Re: Magistrates becoming permanent?
Post by: Vellos on April 09, 2012, 12:15:49 AM
The Magistrates should be the place where ALL complaints go to. For cheating they may need help from the Dev Team to establish the facts, but I'd rather have one set of rules, one set of judges and one place to watch.

We just need a simple mechanism for kicking a complaint up to the Titans.
Title: Re: Magistrates becoming permanent?
Post by: Penchant on April 09, 2012, 02:39:29 AM
Off-topic but doesn't deserve its own thread really-Velax applied to the Magistrates which hasn't been answered yet and I am wondering if applying is still open now that Velax has applied so it can be known so others aren't applying with 0 chance of becoming one?
Title: Re: Magistrates becoming permanent?
Post by: Tom on April 09, 2012, 09:45:52 AM
Can't answer that. I'd need to make a role-call to see how many magistrates we still have active.