The Bad-Business Doctrine

How to handle bad actors: promote the good, equip the harmed, never host the trial, and never keep a bad-actor list.

When someone does harm in or near the community, the instinct is to adjudicate — host the accusation, run the trial, keep a list. That turns your trust engine into a courtroom and makes you liable for verdicts you can't actually render. The doctrine refuses that role.

Instead: promote the good (pour energy into elevating trustworthy people and behavior), equip the harmed (give people who've been hurt resources and a path, privately), never host the trial (don't let your space become the venue for the fight), and never keep a bad-actor list (it's a liability, it rots, and it makes you judge).

You are a steward, not a court. Route problems to where they belong, protect the room, and keep the engine pointed at trust.