Re: Code of Conduct and Foundation membership

[Behdad Esfahbod <behdad behdad org>]

On 11/25/2009 02:18 PM, Jason D. Clinton wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 1:07 PM, Behdad Esfahbod <behdad behdad org
> <mailto:behdad behdad org>> wrote:
>
>     To make the discussion more practical, lets take one real incident
>     of the past:  Murray's blog re Jeff.  It did not include vulgar
>     language.  It did include exaggerations that turned into libel.  Now
>     how does any proposed solution deal with that?
>
> ...
>
>     I like specific answer to "how would your proposed solution would
>     address this past incident, if it happened again?" from anyone
>     proposing a solution.
>
>
> Action: Jeff refers his complaint to the membership committee, MC agrees
> it was out of bounds, and sends a warning to Murray (first offence).
>
> End result: Jeff feels vindicated in his belief that he was wronged and
> is feels that any further attacks are unlikely as the Foundation (via
> MC) makes it clear, publicly, that this attack was out of bounds and
> that any further attack of that time will result in actual suspension of
> privileges.
>
> How does this not improve on what we have now?

I'm guessing that Jeff would not have bothered to play cop and the end result 
would have been as it is today, plus a "first offence" for Murray.  I'm not 
sure the end result would have been much different.

behdad