... I do not like, the passing of a turn clause being interpreted as something a combatant must then put up with. When I zone I tend to respond in ways that negate the god modded point...up to a certain point. Then if such thing continue I would often go back and point the instances of where I had let things slide in order to bring it to my opponent's attention that while I have been somewhat lenient in the issues I consider to be 'out of bounds' that repeated god modding and failure to maintain certain standards of RP is annoying and should be stopped. I never did think that a person should nit-pick a battle to death, that some flexibility should be possible between the two people's RP styles. However, that does not mean I should have to swallow a total route and it is time to clean things up a bit.
That's not the way I and some others RP/zone. If you had me for a judge I would just point out that you accepted the post as fact and should have brought it up last time. If you had you for a judge (not literally, you can't be your own judge, but for lack of another example of this alternative) you would accept the post and point out that the other person should not have god-modded.
A discrepancy like that could have a huge impact on the judge's decision making, so I feel it needs to be defined. Stuff like that is why I feel there need to be standards.
I think having a judge picked during pre-fight discussion, and then discussing it with them, rather than making a forum thread, is the way to go. I believe forum disputes concerning bijuu have pretty much gotten on everyone's last nerve. Creating a forum thread kind of contradicts/(is)redundant to this point. Mediator/Judge...really the same thing.
That is what I meant, though I would have suggested having the discussions be in public and others are not allowed to post. Granted, that would be really hard to enforce (like, really hard, people are nosy after all) initially, so maybe the discussion can happen in private and relevant details posted in public?
As for time limits upon settling disputes...I am a fan of less than 2 weeks max in the interests of timeliness. Other than life event absences...for are not posts to the match supposed to be within 7 days time...2 weeks is a big delay. Adding in an extra week to handle issues should be enough.
Much of this was borrowed from my biju guidelines thing, so I may not have accounted for the 7 days time decision. Nonetheless, I chose 15 days as an absolute cut-off no matter the circumstances, which is only 1 day greater than "with extenuating circumstances".
I don't want RP leaving SL and moving to the forum. This should be an option rather than a rec. However, documentation would be accounted for through the host's forum info thread by means of the challenger list, notifications posted as to whose turn it is, that terms have been agreed upon, activity log, etc.
I would rather the fight itself be physically documented here on the forum (though i wouldn't mind the fights being done here on the forum, to shave off some of that record-keeping stuff in that champion thread). For record-keeping sake. You see, over a period of fights some people use the same technique over and over again, but in a different manner. If a judge is trying to figure things out, seeing a clear, unexplained discrepancy in usage might would help make some thing clear.
The intent, however, is that people are able to actively see the biju fight happening in, more or less, one place, and won't have to go hunting for it. That might in truth be a relic of when biju fights were publicly debated, but I still like the idea of having exact records of the actual fight here on the forum, just like we have such records of the Jounin Exams Finals. It gives something for newbies to look at and know how these biju matches are actually fought, and gives experienced people an idea on how to zone at this level.
I think this requires the resolution of the stripping a bijuu host clause to determine how best to deal with a host-less beast.
I posted this idea in what I think is the appropriate thread (the one talking about where stripped beasts go).