Lemuria v. Concerned Parties

Lemuria v. Concerned Parties is an ongoing arbitration case between Lemuria and multiple parties opposed to him, represented by d9eoead. Fern began the arbitration at 01:43 AM UTC, on July 10, 2025, giving both parties 24 hours to write a document explaining their case.

This was the first arbitration case of its kind on the site, due to the complexity of the Lemuria-OWOT conflict and the lack of clear formal administrative rulings from earlier points in the conflict.

Case

overall structure of this thing
1. initial statement window
2. rebuttal/debate phase
3. arbitrator questioning
4. decision making
each gets its own day so this'll be a four day thing pretty much

The initial statement window ran from July 10–12, 2025. Lemuria wrote his statement in the form of a PDF file generated with LaTeX, a document typesetting system, while d9eoead wrote his statement on an OWOT world. However, because d9eoead could not finish the document in time, at 03:44 UTC, on July 11, 2025, Fern granted both parties another 24-hour extension.

About 12 hours later, Lemuria sent his document to Fern at 16:40 UTC, while D9eoead claimed he sent his at 15:52 UTC.

Starting in the evening of July 12, 2025, Lemuria and d9eoead began debating against each other, as part of the rebuttal/debate phase. D9eoead posted his document to https://ourworldoftext.com/the_case_against_lemuria and Lemuria's PDF document is at https://lemuria.ph/static/2025-07-10-owot-arbitration-lemurias_case.pdf. The thread where the two discussed the case was initially public, but d9eoead and Fern later chose to move to a private thread.