Trial System

[Sir Kotok]

What is Trial System? How to use it? Where it is? How it works? I just want to know everything about it.

[Vepar]

You go to: http://blankmediagames.com/Trial/

Sign up with your Town of Salem account.

You need to have 150 or something games played on your account or it won't let you vote.
Then, you need to successfully pass the automated test on the site to judge dummy reports after you read the rules and how the site works. If you judged them correctly, according to the rules, you get to vote on the real reports.

I don't know how many people need to vote guilty on a report, but after they do, it gets sent to the judge who then decides to ban or not.

[Sir Kotok]

Thanks

[Vepar]

No problem.

Also, the trial system keeps a rating on how you judge. If you voted guilty, but the report was deemed innocent by others and the judge, your rating drops. If it drops too low, you can't vote anymore.

[Flavorable]

Just FYI: This info is also in the Town of Salem Rules pinned post.

[Jirodyne]

Originally posted by Vepar:

Also, the trial system keeps a rating on how you judge. If you voted guilty, but the report was deemed innocent by others and the judge, your rating drops. If it drops too low, you can't vote anymore.

Huh, I didn't know about this. Namely because there was a Tip in the rating system. Where even if someone is clearly guilty, you are allowed to vote innocent if you think the person doesn't deserve the mark on their record, or the situation showed ignorence. The last line of the tip being 'The Trial System is only as harsh as the community makes it'.

So if I vote innocent on someone with a bad name, because I clearly say in the lobby chat people pressuring him to have that name. But everyone else votes guilty because he has a bad name, not caring if the person was tricked into or pressured, I would lose rating and eventually be unable to help the Trial System?

That seems a little... Backwards?

[Vepar]

Originally posted by RainbowC22:

Originally posted by Vepar:

Also, the trial system keeps a rating on how you judge. If you voted guilty, but the report was deemed innocent by others and the judge, your rating drops. If it drops too low, you can't vote anymore.

Huh, I didn't know about this. Namely because there was a Tip in the rating system. Where even if someone is clearly guilty, you are allowed to vote innocent if you think the person doesn't deserve the mark on their record, or the situation showed ignorence. The last line of the tip being 'The Trial System is only as harsh as the community makes it'.

So if I vote innocent on someone with a bad name, because I clearly say in the lobby chat people pressuring him to have that name. But everyone else votes guilty because he has a bad name, not caring if the person was tricked into or pressured, I would lose rating and eventually be unable to help the Trial System?

That seems a little... Backwards?

I'm not exactly sure how this all works, maybe the mods or judges themselves can answer that. But in order to even get rating, the report needs to be processed by the judge, and the person pardoned or issued a ban so... No idea really...

Maybe i'm completely wrong and nothing happens if you're on the bottom of the rating barrel, but i vaguely remember reading somewhere about that, i think in the trial system itself...

Also, if you're wrong 90% of the time, you're not really helping. The rules are pretty clear. Like the bad names. If the person has done it once, people will inno, but if they have 10 reports against them and it's happening all the time, they're gonna get at least a warning, and then if you vote inno, you're not giving them "another chance" afther the 10th time...