Actually Eric...getting rid of the rules except for activity requirements was how the discussion was going before you made this flawed poll...
Let me focus in right here.
Flawed poll? Flawed poll? Amend the biju rules or get rid of the rules are
not the same thing, and were made separate options for a reason.
1) Amend the rules. The major problems have been between interpretation of the rules and the conflict with RP ideologies. Naturally then, the two major calls for amendment have been to radically alter the rules by elaboration (granting more detail to lessen ambiguity) or by reduction (getting rid of many of the rules, leaving only the bare minimum, the rest being covered by various RP standards). The two have not been split apart because both seek to amend the rules rather than get rid of them entirely.
2)Abolish the biju rules entirely. This means that there are no over-arching rules governing the tailed beasts other than RP standards, which can vary from place to place, host to host. The tailed beasts are not public commodities which need overarching regulation and control under this option. They are, in essence, claimed items that can be taken and lost in a similar fashion (think canon claimed items)...
Amend the rules, keep official biju. Abolish the rules, make biju "unofficial" and you pretty much fight the RP standards of the day for the beast. Those are two completely and utterly different approaches to keeping the tailed beasts. That's like saying amend the constitution and go all Wild West Style are the same things in a nutshell when they are not even close.
I made this discussion as a direct response to that "other" thread where I called Warren out on shenanigans with his RP requirements for challengers and was met with "well, the rules are stupid" and "you idiot, Warren is doing nothing wrong making his beast exponentially harder than all the others to even get a shot at!".
That thread where it became increasingly clear that enforcement of a fair system was
impossible without harsher and more rigid enforcement, with punishments befitting the bill and blind to the RP medals, something the SL population has resisted since the dawn of time. There was no was no way of balancing the challenger and the challenged in terms of "fairness" in a system where it is up to community organizers to rally a lynch mob, go after one guy, be told to put down the torches and forks, and wait for some system to do its magic.
I do not know where everyone else was going, but getting rid of the rules just because one guy gets accused of breaking them, after many others have been hounded and at times all but lynched for being accused of breaking the same set of rules was definitely not the direction I was going. Not the direction I am even now going.
I have never if ever been for burning Joann and extraditing Frollo, even if both could be accused of the same crime. If the rules are to be changed just because a few people get stubbed toes at the stop sign, then there is no point at all to having any rules. And if there are not going to be rules, then it's Wild West, the biju are claimed items, and we can all have a nice day, cause anytime someone wants to complain that they are not getting a fair shot, or that so-and-so has gone inactive, we can just say, "welp, the way of the claims world". Turning the tailed beasts into an international Seven Ninja Swordsman of the Mist (swords) is a different cry from amend the rules that try to make it fair for challenger and challenged.