Editing Cycle 12/Ruleset (section)

==Judgement==
There shall be a sole Judge, responsible for resolving rules disputes.

An incumbent judge can be removed with the assent of two players, but should not be removed except for abuse of office.

===Requests for Justice===
Any person can initiate a Request for Justice (RFJ) by sending one or more sheets in #requests-for-justice. The sheets must clearly identify a single statement to be judged and may contain other content.

An RFJ can be initiated on a question instead of a statement, but this is discouraged.

===Delivery Judgements===

After an RFJ is initiated, the judge shall, as quickly as possible, respond to it. The response shall consist of a clearly identified judgement (either the truth value of the RFJ's statement or the answer to the RFJ's question), optionally with other content. The response should include reasoning.

A response can be assigned to an RFJ by sending it one or more sheets in #requests-for-justice, clearly identifying the RFJ to be responded to (perhaps not in the sheets).

===Overturning===

Within 4 days of a ruling being made, any player can initiate a public vote of confidence on it by sending a card or message in #requests-for-justice. Players can vote on it for 2 days after initiation by reacting to the card or message containing the vote of confidence with a thumbs-up and thumbs-down emoji that represent a vote for or a vote against respectively. At the end of this period, the ruling is overturned if strictly more players voted in favor of overturning than affirming.

A ruling may be overturned by the judge who made it by sending a card in #requests-for-justice. When this happens, the judge can and shall issue a new ruling on the same request.

===Authority===

A ruling duly issued on an RFJ is binding, but only to the extent that is pertains reasonably directly to the request and to the extent that it does not blatantly and obviously contradict rules text.

The above notwithstanding, an overturned ruling is wholly null and void and in no way binding and shall have no effect on the gamestate or its interpretation.

===Election===

Any reputable player may become a candidate for judge by sending a card in #judge-elections. If there are any judge candidates put forward in a given week, the player whose message has the most :+1: reactions becomes the judge once that week ends. Ties are broken in favor of the player with the easiest candidacy in the week.