Woohoo! You've convinced me to drag my mouth into this!
dinobro wrote:Just FYI:
You all talk of how "it's not us, it's community ruling!". It's not. You only take votes from team leaders and ignoring voice of all the players, spectators and other, as you called them, ladle enthusiasts. So yeah, letting team leaders who might have interest in getting rid of someone (banning a good player to increase their clan chances in next ladle perhaps?) do all the ruling.
So please, stop overusing "community". Community as a whole has no say in the matter. All the rules are enforced by biased people with their own interests. I'm not saying you're all vicious and biased, but can you vouch for everyone else? If you think you can, you're incredibly silly. It's nothing like a jury. Jury, people who decide of the guilt, should be unbiased towards the accused person and have no personal interest in conducting a punishment. As Lowkey said, you DON'T EVEN HAVE an appeal process...
You're correct that it is far from equivalent to a trial as held after a crime. One such trial would determine what the state should do, perhaps keep the culprit away from society for a while. Therefore representatives are selected for the whole society, and therefore they are meant to be unbiased toward any party in trial.
With Ladle trials, the highest penalty is to keep someone away from Ladle participants on Ladle day. Who better than Ladle participants is there to answer the question "Do we keep this person away from Ladle participants?"
As for the appeal process, it has already been said in this thread a process would be made as it becomes needed. Also, if the appeal is about the punishment rather than the facts, the least that could be done first would be an apology. The chronology of all this is also absurd:
11 Jul - Vogue is banned 1 Ladle for playing on two teams
14 Aug - Vogue is banned 12 Ladles after circumventing her ban and impersonating someone
04 Sep - Vogue gloats that she would circumvent her ban during that Ladle
09 Sep - Vogue asks [what if people were against that ban]? (while saying she hasn't had the desire to play Ladle)
Oh OK, she hasn't had the desire to play. Oh wait, what's that on September 4th? Why would you say that if you had no desire to play?