In terms of substantive concerns, the ArbCom model is what most non-staff commenters seem to be caught up on. I'm personally concerned with any creation of a dispute resolution "class" of editor, since I feel that the community does a terrible job of mob resolution at places like ANI on enwiki, or RfC on meta. The less you can exclusively resolve disputes on-wiki, the better.
And this proposal for an ArbCom is perhaps the most bureaucratic and expansive one I've ever seen. A regular and supplementary committee? And one which hears all cases, rather than just appeals? This sounds like a perfect recipe for diffusing responsibility for blocks/bans and that's not a good thing. The benefit to individual admins (and whatever the equivalent is on phab) making decisions about blocks is that you know who did it and how to appeal it. That's a lot harder when it was done because of a 3-2 vote on some strange committee that will be hard for newcomers or occasional users to understand the composition of.
Replace the enforcement section with authority for admins (and equivalent) to add sanctions as they see fit, but with some sort of formal appeal option like asking another admin, or a small and randomly selected group of them, or a small and randomly selected group of others.
Adrian Raddatz
On Sun, Feb 26, 2017 at 10:12 AM, Pax Ahimsa Gethen < list-wikimedia@funcrunch.org> wrote:
Thank you for sharing that Rachel Nabors post, David; bookmarked. I think some on this list are missing the point that codes of conduct are necessary to help provide a welcoming and safer environment for marginalized people, including the neuroatypical that Tim refers to (somewhat disparagingly). It isn't about virtual signaling or earning social justice cred; it's about addressing some of the legitimate concerns and fears that prevent people including women (of all races), people of color (of all genders), LGBT+ people, and others from participating fully in spaces and events.
- Pax aka Funcrunch
On 2/26/17 9:53 AM, David Gerard wrote:
On 26 February 2017 at 17:49, Tim Landscheidt tim@tim-landscheidt.de wrote:
Eh, they do and that is one of the reasons to oppose the
Code of Conduct. Its draft implicitly alleges that the technical spaces currently are a cesspit that is in urgent need of someone with a rake while protecting actual offend- ers by granting immunity to "neuroatypical" behaviour.
This is a pretty reasonable presumption regarding technical spaces: if you *don't* have a code of conduct, it's a reasonable conclusion from outside that there will be serious unacknowledged problems.
e.g. "You literally cannot pay me to speak without a Code of Conduct" http://rachelnabors.com/2015/09/01/code-of-conduct/
This is literally all well-worn discourse territory, but I'm sure if you both persist you can wear everyone down.
- d.
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