[Osmf-talk] Clarification on how "Proposed draft policy on project-wide suspensions and bans" would be implemented Re: Next OSMF board meeting on Thursday 28 September 2023, at 15:00 UTC

[Paul Norman]

On 2023-09-25 4:09 p.m., Emerson Rocha via osmf-talk wrote:
> On the "Proposed draft policy on project-wide suspensions and bans" I
> have an open question for the OSMF board of directors: will such kind
> of policy be approved as a mere board decision, without consulting the
> mappers themselves with plenty of time to feedback?

Past policies that apply to the OSMF, not mappers, and limit when the 
OSMF can ban users were discussed among those who they applied to, not a 
general consultation. For example, the Ban Policy 
(https://osmfoundation.org/wiki/Ban_Policy) was discussed among the DWG, 
because it limited the DWG.

> With this context, the "Proposed draft policy on project-wide
> suspensions and bans" resembles what would be an actionable point to
> allow parts of the heavily criticized 2023-04 version (but which
> aren't on the Strategy Plan 2023-09 version), and is not clear if by
> topics of the next minute if this will be decided without any mappers
> feedback as if was something with minor impact.


I'm very confused by what you're talking about, since none of the 
Cluster B tasks were about when users banned from one channel have their 
ban extended globally. In addition, as the minutes say, the proposed 
policy originated from moderators, not the board.

I'm not sure why the policy isn't linked from the board minutes, but 
don't know how the document was circulated to the board.