General Mojo wrote:That arrogant and condescending response is exactly the type of thing that I am referring to in terms of the forums going progressively downhill in the past three years. All laws, or in this case community guidelines, are open to interpretation. This is why in our (and by our i mean the United States) justice system, judicial decisions are published in the public domain so that society will have a better understanding for how the law will be enforced and applied. If you want conquer club to be preceived as a fair an equitable place (which I presume and hope the administration would), you will realize the error of your ways and follow suit. The clientele, especially the paying ones, deserve and should expect nothing less.
This is actually an interesting point. I had really never considered it from this angle, and honestly this really got me thinking. I would like to point out that the vast majority of judicial opinions are not actually published. Instead, we simply get the ruling. The difference is that across the US there are enough to make for plenty of reading.
Having said that, generally when opinions DO get published is when it is a big issue, controversial case, or a the court wants to rule on a matter of law. Which, to me, it would seem this case qualifies for. Obviously Owen is a most prolific CC poster, and we also know that he is very good at seeing how far he can push a rule.
The other side of things is that published judicial opinions is that they are exclusively from secondary courts. You pretty much never get a rule of law from a trial court. At CC, the forum ban is like trial court, I am sure there is an e-ticket appeal active as we speak. I would ask that E-Ticket appeals get published so we can review those.
Again, all of my post is about American systems, and simply because that is where my experience is. I could make some statements about Canadian and British systems, but I'd rather not unless I really knew what I was talking about. Good post General Mojo, you really got me thinking.