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http://www.gaiaonline.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=11843306

What a grand way to generate interest in Gaia. Hold a trial for one of the NPCs.

So, what say you, my fellow Guild members? Lynch Ian by his privates with dental floss? Exile him back to his storefront? Put his damn cat on a diet?

You be the jury!

This looks more like a chance for the little postwhores here on Gaia to lift their legs and piss on the walls, metaphorically speaking. Just an excuse to let the rabble up their post counts and make a scene for no good reason.

And as entertaining as imagining Ian dangling by his family jewels at the end of a dental floss noose, I still think the cat did it. So do a lot of the posters in the special thread the admins set up for this verbal melee.

Go forth and watch the carnage!

Then you'd be admiting to Arson my friend. 3nodding

Still the use of robots to commence the proceedings reminds me of a similar court case: Sattelite of Love v. Crow T. Robot

Gypsy: So why does Crow get a chance to respond, Mike?
Mike: Well, it's due process. As the accused, he is owed a chance to defend himself.
Tom (wearing a chief executioner cloth and carrying an ax): Plus, it gives him hope and it makes killing him an even richer experience.
Mike: We're not going to kill him and take that hood off (Mike removes the hood. Crow enters., wearing military medals on his chest.)
Crow: Well, I'm here for my last ditch hearing. Uh, got a statement. Hi, everyone. Well! Where to start?
Gypsy: Should we listen? We're shunning him.
Mike: No, we should listen.
Gypsy: Oh, good, it's hard to shun. I keep forgetting.
Crow: If it please the court?
Mike (hammering with a gavel): It pleases the court. Quiet, everyone! (lights dim; Crow talks to Cambot.)
Crow: As I think back in my life, I see basically a good robot. A robust and exemplary youth was followed by an unusually religious and publicly spirited young adulthood. Then I began my life of service. Being crushed into an ingot. Being hung upside down in chains.
Gypsy: You know, it's really true.
Crow: Yet all that matters not for trouble has found me. I stand accused of cheating and here is where the story becomes complex.
Gypsy: Complex? He copied my paper? What's complex about--? (Mike hushes her up.)
Crow: If my actions, if my creative methods for obtaining information, have--
Gypsy: He copied my whole paper. (Mike hushes her again.)
Crow: ...if those methods have been perceived by some as less than on the up-and-up, this causes me so much pain.
Tom: Can we just kill him now?
Crow: Perhaps, in my purity, I did not recognize temptation. The tragedy is almost too perfect. But I accept the consequences. I forgive Mike for forcing me into this situation. He did not realize the trap he was setting. I forgive Servo and Gypsy--
Gypsy: He copied my friggin' paper!
Tom: DOWN HE GOES! DOWN! DOWN!
Crow: And I forgive myself. Thank you. (lights come up) I await your verdict.
Mike: Well, Crow, first up, it seems like you never really got to the apology.
Crow: Oh, uh, right. (To Cambot.) In an otherwise selfless and velvet life, I have cheated. And when you cheat, you make an eat out of C and H. I'm sorry.
Mike (pounding his gavel, serious judge voice): The court finds the defendant...GUILTY! (Crow sobs. Mike continues cheerfully.) But he's basically a decent guy, so he and all his friends are sentenced to eating Hostess Snowballs all night long. (The 'Bots cheer.)
Tom: I was with you all along, buddy! I knew you'd never fry!

Well so far the prosecution has managed to provide motive.

When will they provide that oh-so crucial part known as EVIDENCE?

I remember Wendigo making a thread about this, pointing out the fallacies and illegality behind the trial through PURE ABSOLUTE LOGIC:
http://www.gaiaonline.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=11851208

First thing, let's hang Ian and all the robot lawyers!

From the looks of the ongoing trial threads, it appears that the robots being used by the writers of this story suffered from a lapse in continuity. In other words, they didn't read the whole of the back story to date, including the dialog for each NPC. That's a lot of stuff to keep track of unless you wrote the bloody bible for the Gaia website.

I have yet to even look into this trial thread thinger. I'm sure it's all rabid Ian-fantards VS rabid anti-Ian-fantards VS spamming idiots VS trolls VS God himself weeping.

I activate Gallifreyan law that a presidential candidate can not be put on trial nor sentenced by nominating myself for president of Gallifrey. Also AYGGS is acting as my consul and similarly is not on trial.