[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]

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On 2023-09-25 8:04 p.m., Paul Norman wrote:
> 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.