On Mon, 19 Oct 2009, ais523 wrote: > One solution to this might be to implement some sort of hard > deregistration that is actually separate from the current time, with a > massive timeout on rejoining, so that people can actually leave the game > and no longer be bound by the rules.
This is too much like the frozen people - bad ideas come back and bring deja vu (short "frozen people" precis: some people were given a status of "frozen" (initially switched on by their own choice) but they couldn't unfreeze themselves before a "massive" (60 day) timeout. Sometime later, some details were changed that prevented them from even limited participation (which of course they couldn't vote against) so they ended up quite mousetrapped. I'm not wholly sure which problem is trying to be fixed. If it's a problem of people leaving rather than get punished when they deserve it, then they are penalized first by a 30-day timeout, and if the crime deserves more in our minds, they need to stay in exile 90 days for the statute of limitations, and if the crime is truly horrible, punishment by proposal remains an option. And all of these are rare cases. Really, the most common deregistrations are people losing interest. Is it really just or useful to extend punishments etc. to them? -G.
