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13390: Re: [MUD-Dev] Player controller justice systems

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From: J C Lawrence <claw@cp.net>
Newsgroups: nu.kanga.list.mud-dev
Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2000 18:46:23 -0700
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Organization: Kanga.Nu
On Mon, 10 Apr 2000 18:08:37 -0500 
Koster, Raph <rkoster@origin.ea.com> wrote:

>> From: David Bennett

>> I remember reading some articles on this subject in the past.  I
>> just cannot find them...  Does anyone have any information about
>> running a complete player controlled online justice system...?
>> Where a player council of some sort deals with crimes reported to
>> them in some fashion.  I would especially like to know if it was
>> successful or not.
...
> There's Islandia's jury system. There are posts in the archives
> about it.

> There were other posts here where the Islandia example came up
> that discussed several theoretical systems.

I think you are referring to Island, a rather atypical MUD run out
of Cambridge University for many years.  Martin Keegan discussed its
justice system (and its farce-like qualities) here briefly.

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