Call for Judgment: Good Faith
Passed 8-2, due to a large number of misunderstandings on both sides. Adminned by Bucky
8-1, actually. Fixed a typo by Bucky, too. Admin flag un-set. —Excalabur
Adminned at 08 Jun 2006 13:34:37 UTC
If this Call for Judgment passes, Bucky is no longer an Administrator.
Our game requires administrators that are trustworthy and have a sufficient moral character. Bucky’s behavior since he has joined our community has consistently demonstrated a lack of good faith, trustworthiness, and a propensity to abuse his position as a game administrator for his own gain.
Last month I added an account named ‘Anonymous’ to the GNDT as a game experiment—I had intended to pen a proposal to allow anonymous action in the GNDT by use of this account, and publicly distribute the password. Much to my amusement, I noticed several days later that the Anonymous account was being used, and that I had not distributed the password to any other player. The Anonymous account made plays that would be under color of legality if they were done by any other player’s account—moving Bucky around and then decreasing his points, and so on. However, at least three of these moves are of highly dubious legality, generally by increasing Bucky’s points out of context.
16/05 00:22 (UTC) - Bucky Bucky's Fitness = 32(19) (was 31(19)) (Trimming tree@B-0N) 16/05 00:22 (UTC) - Bucky Bucky's Moves = 5 (was 11) (Trimming tree@B-0N) 16/05 01:38 (UTC) - Anonymous Bucky's Moves = 15 (was 5) 16/05 01:39 (UTC) - Bucky Bucky's Location = B-1O (was B-N1) 16/05 01:39 (UTC) - Bucky Bucky's Moves = 14 (was 15) 22/05 23:37 (UTC) - Bucky Bucky's Knowledge = 9 (was 8) (Studying botany) 22/05 23:37 (UTC) - Bucky Bucky's Moves = 9 (was 15) (Studying botany) 23/05 02:22 (UTC) - Anonymous Bucky's Fitness = 25(10) (was 15(10)) (1/2 of previous value) 23/05 15:05 (UTC) - Bucky Bucky's Location = A-22X (was C-E2) 23/05 15:05 (UTC) - Bucky Bucky's Moves = 6 (was 9) 24/05 23:16 (UTC) - Bucky Bucky's Moves = 26 (was 60) 26/05 15:59 (UTC) - Anonymous Bucky's Items = Wand of Digging (was Virus) 26/05 16:31 (UTC) - Bucky Bucky's Fitness = 30(12) (was 30(11))
See the GNDT log for context.
Interestingly, in this last case, the Wand of Digging was requested from a Story Post (Story Post: Oopsie, posted by Bucky at 29 May 2006 04:05:19 UTC), which was stamped AGAINST by the Abbot. Later the Monastery Map was altered to reflect tunnels being dug, which I do not recall approving in a Story Post, which is the necessary condition for those changes to be made by Rule 2.9.
In all of these edits (both legal and dubious) the IP for the Anonymous login is identical to the IP for Bucky’s prior logins. The logs confirm this—the inquiring reader is referred to the full GNDT logfile for this game to look at the IP addresses. One only need search for ‘Anonymous’ to see that the IP of Bucky agrees with the IP of that account. It is worth noting again that this password was held only by myself and that Bucky had to get it from the GNDT password file to employ it for his own use.
Additionally, we have the current issue of Bucky’s latest scam. This scam required that he administer a proposal in order to bring it to fruition to take advantage of a poorly worded rule. Although such a thing is legal in itself, his actions to complete the scam are both illegal and distasteful (namely, enacting proposals out of order and then raising a CfJ to legalize his scam). As an isolated incident, such a thing might be of less consequence, but Bucky’s history confirms that he is an opportunistic scammer who will only continue to exploit his position as an administrator for his own gain.
For those players who are new, I advise you to review the archives before voting on this and read over the end of the First Dynasty of Elias IX—Bucky’s scamming almost singlehandedly drove that game to a crashing halt. The easiest solution to the can of worms which Bucky opened was to end Elias’s game and start a Metadynasty. Given his history and current plays, there is no reason to believe that Bucky will not continue to exploit his administrator’s position.
Bucky’s first proposal to become an admin staff was made during Elias’s games, in the middle of all of his scams—Proposal: Adminify Bucky, which failed 2-7, at 05 Apr 2006 02:25:11 UTC. The comments here are also worth reading—most players were not convinced of Bucky’s general trustworthiness. His second proposal (finalized at 29 Apr 2006 07:30:04) passed, 6-0, after a period of good behavior. It is my claim the pause in the scams was to gain enough good faith from our community to be able to become an administrator, after which he could use that position for scams which a non-admin is incapable of performing.
Furthermore, Bucky made two anonymous Calls for Judgment in February titled ‘The Final Solution’, both of which called for his banning. The comments are worth reading—most players found this title and proposal extremely offensive, and it failed 0-10. The anonymous poster was advised by consensus to consider why this kind of behavior was unacceptable. Bucky later reproposed the same anonymous CfJ with identical title later that day, which failed 0-11. Bucky’s comments are worth reading on those CfJs. We know that that Bucky posted both Call for Judgments as his IP address was identical with the anonymous poster. Here’s a screencap. At the time his account was named Captain, to perpetrate a scam.
Bucky’s history and recent plays as an administrator show a tangible lack of good faith. Any one of the above actions would have been forgivable, but this continued pattern of abuse seems to show no signs of stopping any time soon. It is my contention that this behavior is not fitting for a game admin, and that Bucky should no longer be an administrator. Our game is not served by having opportunistic admins who are constantly on the lookout for ways to gain by any method. We do not want administrators who abuse their privileges to gain access to GNDT accounts for exploitation, or those who use their powers of enactment to further their own private scams.
due to obvious biases.
Angry Grasshopper: