[OSM-talk] BDFL & Moderation
Al Haraka
alharaka at gmail.com
Wed Aug 11 19:41:37 BST 2010
Steve,
On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 2:26 PM, SteveC <steve at asklater.com> wrote:
> I plan only to moderate people (for 24 hours) after taking a poll of key people including Andy Allan, Matt Amos, Katie Filbert, Tom Hughes, Emilie Laffray, Frederik Ramm, Ivan Sanchez, Grant Slater and Richard Weait. If you think more than these would be good then let me know. Any moderation will be announced to those people I just mentioned, and not publicly. Why not publicly? On balance, it seems better to not call out individuals publicly which might only make things worse and make them feel more upset, which is not the purpose of a 'cooling off' period. Any one of those people I announce it to could announce it publicly if they want to.
>
> I am happy to listen to a different panel, if one constitutes itself. If I have full confidence in said panel, I'll consider handing over the power and stepping back.
A question in the interest of transparency: will you be publicly
*documenting* when a person is locked out for a period? I completely
understand not calling the person out publicly on the list, but will
you keep a record on the wiki or something (I am not so picky on the
actual form of documentation) of who in this group voted on locking
out a particular user and the specific reason? I know, I know, that
is more s*** people need to do, and really do not want to. I ask
because I see a need to keep this very transparent to not feed into a
user's impression that they are being bounced for thinking
differently, not misbehaving (whether or not I agree, I would like to
know why).
That is all.
Regards,
_AJS
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