This reminds me of when I proposed this:
Legislative Respect Act of 2018
Section 1: Restrictions: In accordance with the rules of the former United States that those in the gallery of the house or senate were not allowed to give expressions of approval or disapproval, Citizens of Lincoln who are not federal or regional elected or appointed officials shall not be allowed to comment on threads for bills being considered in the Lincoln Assembly.
Section 2: Enforcement: Any comments made in Assembly bill threads by unauthorized individuals, as defined in the previous section, shall be ignored and reported to Atlas mods with a request to delete the post, and Assembly members are to take all measures necessary to ensure such comments have no effect on their opinion of a piece of legislation.
Section 3: Clarifications:
1. No part of this bill shall be construed to prohibit citizens from asking questions or commenting in more appropriate and respectful locations, such as office threads, private messages, etc.
2. No part of this bill shall be construed to prohibit citizens from introducing legislation via the appropriate thread.
3. No part of this bill shall be construed as a sense of the assembly to discourage citizen input, but shall rather be seen as a sense of the assembly that citizen input is not appropriate in Assembly bill threads.
4. Courts shall not strip voting rights on the sole basis of violation of this act.
Section 4: This bill shall take effect upon signage.
But this version did not fine anyone, instead it merely created an obligation to report them to the mods. Also S019 would be exempted from this as a regional elected official, and it is a blanket provision rather than something focused on one user.
The version actually being debated here is too punitive and should be voted down.
