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Originally Posted by Menchor Barbosa  After reading all this, except for the wall of text, my comment is, wouldn't this be easier to add a judicial system to banlink? People could agree in advance to let them arbitrate, and have someone, or some 3 preferably have the documents and logs submitted. A highly trusted system would be able to use an existing system to get someone banned in a number of places if they didn't pay up or perform.
The whole government thing is idiotic. |
We've thought about something sorta like that before - making it so that if enough subscribers complain about a particular ban, it automatically becomes non-sharable. But that's about the extent to it - and that idea is so fraught with potential issues, it'll likely never see the light of day anyway.
Ironically, Metaverse Republic already subscribes to BanLink - although they've never really used it, and few people have chosen to trust them. And that's the rub: Anyone can create a government in
SL, but it carries zero authority without landowner buyin. Part of it has to do with the way land permissions work, part of it has simply to do with our
SL resident culture: few are willing to completely cede control of property they pay for to someone else. BanLink gets around that issue by being decentralized, and keeping each landowner's final authority intact.
SL isn't exactly like RL, and governmental analogies really don't translate well here - despite how hard some folks try to jam a square peg in a round hole.
