Posted by The Arcane(VIP) on July 7, 2000 at 10:02:34:
In Reply to: Lying to get someone flagged posted by Bemus-ed on July 7, 2000 at 09:43:53:
> This kind of behaviour can have dire results on someones character, say I wanted to join the Halls eventually or whatnot. It should be a denial offense, and moronic arbiters who flag at a whim should be also. So now I have a permanent record because I didn't bend over and take it up the ass when those four imbiciles tried to have me a pole. A denial offense? Multicharring or using OOC means to get someone flagged (falsely or not), sure. But there's nothing at all against the rules about roleplaying that sort of interaction with an Arbiter, and I'm personally surprised it doesn't happen more often. For example, imagine someone who believes that Theran Law and the Arbiter cabal is flawed as a mechanism, and sets out to undermine the law by convincing a half dozen people of differing ranks and such to lie in concert with him. How many Arbiters do you think they could dupe, and how many people do you think they could have flagged, before they lose their credibility? Numerous, I'd say. And it'd be even better if the "mastermind" behind this plan didn't ever interact with the Arbiters directly, so he'd never be found out and could merely keep recruiting new people to help him.... Eventually the law would be rendered a sham, or Arbiters would have to stop accepting witness testimony entirely. Either way, I think it'd be cool to see. (If it's not apparent, I really, really dislike the Arbiter cabal. I'd play a Trouper long before I'd play an Arbiter. Hell, the "law-respecting" point of the paladin code basically kept me from rolling up a paladin when they were revamped.)