Wow, Eric. You really need a lengthy explanation to understand what it means to actually work with someone and not tear them down, bully, harrass, and verbally abuse someone when you're trying to either defend or hunt a bijū. Seriously? That's exactly what 1, 5, and 6 are completely about. Just simplified.
Of course "judges" could be brought in by the two involved in the bijū RP but they aren't necessary and shouldn't be such a hard rule to follow that one just has to have one in order to do anything bijū related.
4 and 7 has to do with obvious malfunction that occurs with the IC hunt. People want to just stroll up to a village and be like "Hey, I'm here for your Jinchūriki but don't fight me. I just wanna fight him/her. Kthanxbai." No. That doesn't work. The village will protect. As it was already deemed in the other ridiculous thread attempting to combat that theory. Be a ninja and get your opponent to 1v1 if that's your agenda. But if you piss off the village, then expect retribution as well. It's all for the RP of the story,and people want to just jump to the end result.
Same thing for meta and goddin' out. Don't pull OOC info as your main source of information, especially bogus buddy-buddy PMs. No, actually RP like you mean it and acquire the info IC. Even if that takes a spell, if you're here for the RP then enjoy the damn RP. If you cannot handle such a simple task, then why are you RPing to begin with? Goddin' out is self-explanatory.
But of course! Like Warren said, if you wanna just fight someone for the bijū without involving IC RP and they are cool with that, then there ya go. It's truly 100% up to the the host on what they want to do and with whom they want to do it with.
Don't give me that "wow Eric, you really need an explanation" bit right there. Out of all of my biju fights, things went fine under the old rules. Even when there were IC hunts, I personally had been fairly fine and helped as much a reasonably possible to smooth things over according to what information I had.
Even when I had to go through some less than welcome (at least on my end) RP that did not involve a tailed beast, I still ultimately went with it and even now help continue to make that entire affair not a waste of everyone's time and energies.
You can go through the threads youreslf, there are definitely people who need a computer's algorithm for this stuff; non-ambigious. As far as I have been concerned, I have only been a dick regarding RP once since I returned to RPing, but there are likely to be those who disagree. Ambiguity is a law's greatest friend and foe, because it allows for multiple interpretations. In the real world, there are people who settle on what interpretation is the "right" interpretation for the time period.
Here, we have no such people. "I"m not being a dick" "Yes you are" is not such a strange phenomenon around here. A judge to settle matters is absolutely necessary when the participants do not see things the same way or do not get along at all.
That "malfunction" that you speak of regarding IC hunts was not a malfunction. It was in the rules itself that such a thing (while RPwise illogical to just up and ask for it at the gates) was ultimately what was supposed to happen according to the rules of biju fighting. I am not going to go back through that thread and quote every instance where I try to hammer this home to people, but to put it shortly, those who went up to the gates and said "gimme your biju fight" were, while within the grounds of the rules to demand such, stoking the tempers of hosts who clearly did not see the IC hunt portion the same way.
The rules were the rules though, change 'em, abolish 'em, or get out of their jurisdiction, but to outright ignore them because they "don't make sense" to you (I'll come out, fight you, right here in front of the village gates, prove my worth as jinch, and the moment we're done, I'll show your body to all my cheering peeps and homedogs at the ramparts. Come on, is something even remotely close to that that really that out of character for some of these hosts?) is
not fair to everyone who does abide by the rules, nor is it a legal option.
If you cannot handle such a simple task as following the biju rules as they are written, or starting a motion to adjust them, then why at any time be under the rules by having a tailed beast? If hosts were stripped for their bs IC hunt requirements, then as was put it earlier by someone else, the question of whether we should even bother with the accursed things (the rules, the beasts, etc.) would not be so pressing.
The question really is for me at this point (since "follow the damn rules as written" has certainly been an argument defeated not by its point but by the refusal to do so), what are the tailed beasts of SL? Are they a public commodity that has to (not could, not should, but has to) be shared with the community as far as opportunity goes? Or are they just like claimed items (to put it shortly) in that you do not have to be given a fair opportunity to take them, and recognizing them is completely optional?
If it is the former, then I stand by all of my arguments so far regarding the rules management, the clear sleight by truants who do not want to play by the terms and agreements they signed, and all that stuff. If the tailed beasts are like claimed items, with the option to personally void and refuse to acknowledge them (just like claimed items), then I throw up my hands and say do what you wish with the tailed beast as long as you leave it at home if you decide to engage anyone who does not acknowledge them in RP.