Posted by An Arbiter. on March 26, 2000 at 12:43:04:
In Reply to: No kidding. *WARNING: Rambling Post* posted by Another Arby on March 26, 2000 at 06:38:22:
> I totally agree. Being an Arbiter is one of the hardest cabals to be in, if you are doing things the way you are supposed to that is.
> I also agree that the Arbiters are not a fool proof way to enforce the laws. I have been attacked many times and complained, but my case refused.
You, yourself, play an Arbiter. You know how often a case has to be thrown. That is the way Arbiters works.
I have also been wanted because an Arbiter applicant heard someone yell about dirt kicked in their eyes. And the arbiter told me that he had two witnesses, the applicant, who never left his guild to see if it was a real yell, and his other witness was the person who was attacked.
Yes, I marked you a criminal. But you leave out a couple of fact. 1) You refused to show for up for questioning in Galadon 2) The witness (the applicant) told me that he saw the two of you fighting at the altar and 3) Both involved, besides you, were lawful and not criminals. But why should I have explained this to you in-game ? You are a criminal with no rights.
Despite all the things I threw at him to falter his case, the flag remained.
Naturally. Just the fact that you refused to show up for questioning can be considered obstruction of justice. It is just a matter of hard you chose to enforce that law.
This has happened several times to my other characters. Now, I find it much harder respect arbiters who place flags with a minimal amount of evidence, when I am playing my higher ranked Arbiter, but I can't let any of that influance me.
Now I can understand why you said something to the extent : “You do not know the law, let me teach it to you” and the proceded to basicaly cite the Book on Investigation. You sure a great at seperateing your charrecters. So what did you do ? Wrote a scroll to the Hall, logged on with you Higher ranked Arbiter and questioned me about the . Perhaps you can not let it influence your arbiter, but you sure as hell messed it up the other way around.
As to the people complaining, as you did, in-game, is part of the reason I chose to become an Arbiter. I like the oppotunity to interact with other players in this way, both when they complain about being wanted and when they complain about the lack of action. If you don’t like getting yelled at, don’t play an Arbiter or work at 7- eleven. What I find amasing is the people that bring complaints about the Arbiters to the forum. It seems thise people have a complety wrong picture of the way the Law works. It dosen’t work for any, it works for itself. Basicly it is just a bunch of people the agreed on a set of rules to follow, and the guards of tge citys under protection agreed.
Me, a person that never post names of living chars.