LB3737 Tampering Punishment

[Memento Mori]

I'm not gonna quote all that for brevity @"Punter715" @Memento Mori

if your goal is to remove tampering those will be the results...gms will never allow it..even in leagues built on it

If you wish to lessen then impact of tampering on first time offenders or create a set amount of punishments based on severity/situation/etc...that's a different proposition

We addressed that a little too but to expand on it: rule proposals need every GM's consent and the consent of at least 1 HO member, or all HO members and 10/14 GMs (assuming 5 voting HO members as there has been in each of the last few seasons).

If we accept the idea that GMs will never allow tampering, I find it hard to imagine they'll vote to reduce the deterrent and probably make tampering more common. How could we reduce the punishment for first-time offenders/offenders who aren't GMs or in war rooms? If we take away the GM ban, wealthier league users can take the hit and might think it's worthwhile for them to tamper someone if they've not been caught before. If we take away the fine so that newer or less active users aren't hit so hard, these less active users who almost-definitely wouldn't GM anyway can go for it along with anyone else not interested in becoming GM. We'd surely need every GM, or close to it, to vote for this proposal because...

HO. Every rule proposal needs consent of at least one HO member to pass. Currently, the tampering rules give HO lots of power because the punishment isn't written in the rules and they can decide to punish it how they wish. The only punishments that are are cap punishments. Even contract punishments (which are just as dry) are decided by HO rather than mandated by the rulebook. Even if every GM votes to make tampering punished less harshly, then you still need a HO member to vote to reduce its own power. If 'only' 71% of GMs vote to make tampering punished less harshly, you need every HO member to vote to reduce the power of HO. I've seen a case as recently as this season where HO decided it didn't like what the rulebook said in relation to a particular issue so ignored it, do you really think that GMs are going to vote to potentially increase the prevalence of tampering and HO vote to reduce it's own power?