[OSM-talk] BDFL & Moderation

[Simon Ward]

On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 12:05:25AM +0100, Andy Allan wrote:
> self control > common sense > advice from peers > guidelines >
> policies > 'official' warnings > interventions > backstop
> 
> What we've come to recently is the final five steps have been pretty
> much non-existent, and things have broken down when the advice from
> peers isn't being taken on board. Hopefully very few people need to
> even get as far as requiring written guidelines on etiquette, but I
> guess it turns out we need them. Your code of conduct would play an
> important part of the guidelines / policies level.
> 
> Steve has basically made himself backstop. All the things that come in
> front are more important to work on and get right, but at least now
> the buck has somewhere to (eventually) stop. I'd hope that nothing
> ever gets escalated that far though.

I couldn’t refrain from just responding to agree, so I’m doing it big
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Simon
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