Caribofthedead v. Model U.S. Supreme Court
Question Presented to the Board of Appeals
Whether the circumstances and reasoning used in a ban or disbarment proceeding presided by a Justice affiliated with the illicit Onion group; and allegedly based in part on evidence obtained by that Justice using “alting” against the petitioner (mimicking other players to target a mark) in the White House, Court, DNC leadership and elsewhere; and allegedly known by meta staff; is reviewable by the Board of Appeals?
May it please the Board—
Emergency Exception Request
I present an extraordinary appeal to the Board, but do so in light of newly-presented evidence this week to the petitioner, of note to proceedings previously rejected in a related upcoming Board of Appeals matter by the Quadrumvirate on Discord for assorted reasons: mainly that the petitioner had a mistaken understanding that the later simulated reset was applicable to some decisions, and that this evidence was unavailable until yesterday.
Other Request
- Petitioner begs the Board for the appointment of the Special Advocate, who was previously contacted with this petition and the related petition by Discord but was not able to reply, and the link was deleted by petitioner after some time from the message.
- Petitioner respectfully asks that Boardmember Maia, an active user in the server this evidence was obtained, with their own private channel under her name, recuse from this matter and that the matter remain otherwise restricted due to personnel in the server being their officials, political and meta colleagues, and moderators in sim.
Deleted user is believed to be Bigg-Boss
Background
[Separate Matter Excluded]
Petitioner around this time was or was recently departed from the Boss cabinet, which included official and unofficial roles for illicit parties including Sevag, Riley, and President Boss himself, who were all accused members of the Onion “Cabal” or “Gang” or “Squad”.
… after the “NAFTA” case concluded, a complaint was filed or issued sua sponte by the Supreme Court for disciplinary proceedings administered by AdmiralJones42. It is believed that at this time, Justice AdmiralJones42 (or “AJ”) in part approved the disbarment of petitioner (note: Boardmember WaywardWit was a member of the Court during these proceedings, but is not alleged to be part of these bylaw violation accusations in any way; it is unknown if NateLooney had more than basic knowledge of these allegations due to a relationship, including an apparent in-person arrangement, with AJ)...
...Again, petitioner was in part removed from sim proceedings and his reputation further tarnished due to, in some demonstrable part, actions that were preplanned by an adverse party with discretionary authority over disciplinary proceedings and in part the events that led to them.
Complaint
After rejoining the sim, petitioner was invited on the main Discord server to another server… Petitioner noticed that numerous users, including since 2017-2018 Boardmember Maia, Head Moderator Nate, DNC Representative The_Powerben, President GuiltyAir, and Discord Clerks (most recently UnitedLover14) who were active in this server was described as a server for communicating with “permabanned” players.
Also active were several banned members of ModelUSGov, including but not limited to members of the Onion group and others banned due to tracking users by IP address, toxicity, and similarly disruptive reasons garnered from the USGovMeta page. As such, petitioner was active in the server for approximately less than an hour, and realizing that some members were invited by group vote to the server to gather information as marks and as jokes, did not revisit it.
However, upon searching the contact of ModelUSGov Discord clerk UnitedLover14 on July 7 in the sim discussion channel to draft a message, petitioner realized in the Discord results a pattern of clerks entering this private server just prior to or during their elevation. Understanding the banned activities including doxxing by members of the community and continued sharing up to recently of past doxxing materials of a few individuals, petitioner performed a keyword search for himself, and although did not find doxxed information on three pages of results as for other ModelUSGov members encountered by test search, located the following post by a banned ModelUSGov member:
Petitioner did not previously understand to be affected by Onion members explicitly except as the Bigg-Boss Administration FBI Director. Petitioner did not realize the connection between AdmiralJones42 and the prior Court proceedings.
Other posts included conversations between petitioner and the DNC (possibly The_Powerben, regarding “demands” of the petitioner as a Senator in the words of the user). Although not illicit, the material is provided to demonstrate the extent of the sharing of information by those in power to affect outcomes in the sim to a specific advantage.
As such, petitioner, immediately drafted this statement and concluded work on it on July 15.
Applicable Bylaws
Petitioner understands that the timing of the complaint is extraordinary under Board rules. However, due to the ongoing… reputational damage and risk if facing additional Court penalties with a record, as well as the newly-uncovered record in a search, petitioner begs for relief.
Briefly in part, petitioner wishes to examine the belief that a Justice of the Court, who was also a member of a secretive group of players that willfully and repeatedly violated the meta constitution, violated Rule 7 of the Court Rules which mandates that “Any person before the Court is expected to adhere to certain standards of decorum in addition to those set forth generally within the Meta Constitution.” Petitioner believes that AdmiralJones42 likely could have been associated with, if not chiefly responsible for the sanction against the petitioner itself in the en banc ruling as the hearing administrator, and the conduct of the Bigg-Boss proceedings that led to the complaint against petitioner and cause for disbarment: namely, that the accusation against the petitioner so punished the was as applicable to a Justice judging the petitioner as the petitioner himself for the events surrounding the controversy (Rule 8); that the Justice in Chief was conspiring to target the petitioner in a party and elsewhere; and that petitioner was in close and continuous contact with the Justice’s Onion colleagues, who are known to seek retribution for “crossing” their interests, in a lawsuit that was against the cabinet’s interests: NAFTA.
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In Conduct, Article VII.1, the Board of Appeals may be contacted for serious enough offences may cause the privilege of appeal to be waived for a reasonable time based on the nature of the offense. Also noted that “reasonable time as defined in this section shall not exceed 1 year from the date of the initial punishment for the purpose of appeals.”
Section 2 explains the jurisdiction of the conduct: /r/ModelUSGov, its core subreddits, its press subreddits, its party subreddits, its live internet chat channels, and its other mediums of communication and simulation. It explains that the Quadrumvirate may oversee and change the punishments of those under them (including clerks) and from an individual Quadrumvirate, and the Head Moderator may accept appeals from the Quadrumvirate. Finally, the Head Moderator, in conjunction with the Quadrumvirate, may establish certain rules for the simulation and its subreddits, forums, and other channels which shall be outlined in the ModelUSGov Bylaws
Section 3 applies to cheating in particular: “At the moderators’ discretion, those who are caught “cheating” (e.g. having duplicate accounts in separate parties, having multiple accounts to vote with, or having multiple accounts that hold office) will be permanently banned from /r/ModelUSGov. After a long period, appeals may be heard by the Board of Appeals as to why such a ban should be lifted, but an appeal is unlikely to be successful, and for good reason.”
Analysis
Although the Head Mod and Quadrumvirate claimed in 2017-2019 by Discord that there is no jurisdiction over certain penalties, there is certainly jurisdiction by the Board over other conduct. This includes “non-serious” and serious conduct, as well as meta violations. Since the responsibility of the moderation team is continuous, the description of new parties appears to be irrelevant.
Even if the penalty of being punished by the Court is not reviewable, which the constitution implies is not valid, the conduct leading to the penalty would be if due to cheating. It would be unjust to prevent a claim due to timing based on the newly-uncovered evidence and ongoing penalty.
A user banned as part of Onion group and their compatriots were all found liable for among other infractions, alting. In the instant matter, knowledgeable persons used alting to illicitly enter and cause a form of conflict with members as part the… the Court, the leadership of the simulation. As a result of the alting, the offender had the opportunity and appears to have actually contributed to poor conduct within the… Court, leading in part or in whole to the penalty standing today against the petitioner by the same body, meta loss of reputation, and general attacks stemming from in-game activities outside the petitioner’s fully accountable control. Notably, that would include past conduct being insightful for future penalties by the Court — and the injustice of a past penalty that is canon today for activities outside his majority-control.
Harm
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The actions of former and current meta players have caused reputational and sim/electoral harm to a current player in a new environment of simulated elections. Without formal recourse, petitioner has been unable to address the… claims in a small circle of parties and a small circle of meta and mod leadership. These damages in the semi-moderated field of parties are likely not restricted to petitioner either.
Finally, as recently as in a Federal Court Complaint Form filed by petitioner in a MSCOTUS post, it is apparent that petitioner believed until today (July 15) that he was subject to past sanctions due to poor conduct by the RPPS and incorporated meta rules. Only today did petitioner realize that the names were similar in the Complaint Form (typing “AJ42” from memory”) and the evidence above (“AJ”, the handwritten note)..
As explained by Justice notevenalongname, a member of the private server with petitioner and AJ:
Petitioner agrees in full with the Justice’s quotation.
Prayer for Relief
Petitioner understands that this is a game. A sim disbarment is not a grand abuse. However, petitioner is not alone in facing diverse impacts from a disturbing era in the sim that were not offered clear remedies in the original founding rules. Petitioner is unsure how this issue could be addressed without procedures in the Court using meta evidence; he is also unsure whether another part of the sim leadership could appropriately handle or address the sensitive claims herein.
But at the time of many of these events, petitioner joined the game as a relief from the monotony or stresses of reality via an ad on the Reddit Subreddit of the Day board. Petitioner understands the internet is a hazardous place, but like many victims of this group of offenders, did not realize the dedication and breadth of the willful trickery and harm these players organized and eventually were identified and penalized for undertaking.
Opinions meant to be unseen of course are afforded flexibility. But to be invited to see toxic comments is not just, similarly to being invited to be an entertaining mark for a group of players:
If things seem off to a mark, there likely is an issue to reconsider. The meta constitution demands a welcoming and effective gaming environment for players of all types and backgrounds, new and old. People should not feel they are being treated as insane or being pushed around by others to act “insanely” for enjoyment; they also should not feel that there is a conspiracy of people acting to troll them to the point of insanity; but only one of these was demonstrably true to all of us in the record in this sim — that there was a conspiracy of actual players aiming to cause maximum havoc for others and targeting those who they felt would have the greatest negative impact on. In many instances, they succeeded for a long period of time after their own banishment. This was bullying and is not encouraged by our rules.
Firstly, petitioner asks for the temporary ban and disbarment of petitioner to be set aside by the Court moderators if the allegations have merit and that the Justice so named was actually involved in the decision as believed.
Petitioner asks the moderators to prohibit a Court from using this disbarment as a cited or impressionable reason for interactions between the petitioner and a Court or in a confirmation hearing or election debate or ad in the future in a negative fashion.
Petitioner requests the Board to clarify the jurisdiction of moderators and the Board over Court penalty operations. In particular, the use of penalties to banish players without due process or appeal due to meta infractions with evidence.
Finally, petitioner asks the Board to consider the use of alting to achieve the penalty cited by a Justice, allegedly having used acting against the barred attorney, in light of moderators and clerks being active in a server with — and refusing to report although allegedly aware of the convicted cheating that took place — attain the result of the banned bar membership.
Petitioner wishes to be extremely clear that no penalty is sought against any player or unit whatsoever — only relief and then clarifying rulemaking on the reviewability and adequacy of the punishment process, in particular if in light of fraudulently attained penalties.
Respectfully submitted,
Caribofthedead
f/k/a CaribCannibal (via r/MODELUSEB)
July 15, 2019