At some point we have to decide who this movement and community is for. Is it for popular individuals to act out in any way they please and be awarded maximum freedom and lack of accountability? Or is it so we can insure a friendly space for everyone, including those who are not popular, who are not loud voices on community forums, who do not want to be harassed or leered at or made uncomfortable?
Everything is a tradeoff, and based on what I've seen I'll take the lack of "due process" from trained and responsible professionals over the popularity contests of the mob any day.
On Fri, Jun 21, 2019 at 4:56 AM Paulo Santos Perneta paulosperneta@gmail.com wrote:
Taking everything and their dog as "harassment", without due process to verify it, and issuing punishments one can't appeal based on that, creates a feeling of fear and insecurity in the events; and provides a tool easy to abuse by clever persons who understood how to game the system, as a vehicle for severe harassment itself.
This creates an unsafe and unfriendly space in the events,and should really be looked at.
Best, Paulo
A sexta, 21 de jun de 2019, 06:57, Natacha Rault via Wikimedia-l < wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org> escreveu:
First of all I don’t know the context of this conversation. I know that I personnally find that the actions of Trust& Safety very valuable and wise. I totally support and trust their judgement.
I am tired of seing their work criticized, and do not appreciate official chapter representants and employees publicly supporting alleged offenders, showing no aknowledgement of the fact that this is very toxic for alleged victims, and does not help to change attitude towards issues of harrassment.
How can we feel safe in the movement if the decisions of T&S are questionned by official members of our movement?
Nattes à chat
Le 21 juin 2019 à 01:04, Chris Keating chriskeatingwiki@gmail.com a écrit :
It is extremely disappointing, and *extremely typical* of the Wikimedia movement, to see an entire thread like this dedicated to supporting
someone
who Trust & Safety has found to have acted in such a way that they had
to
intervene. It is even more disappointing to see a person who was
affected
by his actions told "this is not your story" and "it may help you when
you
grow some sensitivity and respect this experience, the feelings of others."
If you're wondering why women leave the Wikimedia movement, and why Wikimedia has such a bad harassment problem in general, just reflect on this thread.
Thank you, Molly, for expressing what I was just trying to summon the energy to write.
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