Some recent posts have generated more heat than light!
Lam, Cadence: I don't believe in 'guilt by association' so I don't think your proposal should be dismissed because of the company you keep (or are perceived to keep). As I hope I have made clear, I disagree with fundamental aspects of it for reasons of principle and a pragmatic concern for what will work. This is informed by the experience we had with the Judiciary Act and I'm keen not to repeat past mistakes.
That said, you are trying honestly to deal with a real problem and it's one we have endured for several years. Let me give you an example, I was LRA a couple of times in the past. In my last term as LRA I felt I had to leave halfway through because I just could not face the harassment and hostility of a number of RA members in and out of meetings. In RL I had no answer to my partner when he asked "Why are you doing something which is making you so upset? Isn't this supposed to be fun?" So, I resigned and continued my Second Life here as an ordinary citizen. I felt at the time that there was something deeply wrong with a community which fails to defend people against trolling, griefing and harassment. This is why I have wondered on my blog what an open society like the CDS can do to protect itself against people who come here to cause drama or just can't help themselves because of a personality disorder. The risk is that we lose what makes us an open society in the process and become a clique which only accepts in 'people who think and behave like we do'.
The view I've come to is that the only sanctions available to us are social ones. We have to express our disapproval of this kind of behaviour and cut off from the people who persist with it. Attention, whether this is positive or negative, is what is craved and without this I hope they will disappear and find some other outlet for their problems.
We do have a special situation here in that it is possible, if you have lots of free time to spend in world and sufficient funds, to buy up land and reserve it for your friends and then use them as a voting base to achieve one or two seats in the RA. This then makes the RA less effective as an institution. For these situations I have recommended a reform to land sales to make this more difficult and the right to recall RA members so incompetent, disruptive or simply absent RA members can be kicked out.