Hoi, We do not want more bureacracy, we want to kill of bureacracty and remove the people who are power building for the nuisance that they are... We can observe objectionable behaviour and to the people who think otherwise, we can show them how they are killing of our project. I would go as far as deny them that it is their project. When new users are abused by trigger happy, power hungry their admin bit loving vandals, we prevent the kind of information from entering our project that informs us about other cultures, people. It makes us a biases narrow minded ghetto of what we think we know about our selves.
We need not more rules, we need observable friendliness, we need the tools to reach out to the newbies.. Blocking is more acceptable AFTER it has been tried to reach using the social networking tools we can implement. We should. We will learn how to use these tools effectively and be less devastating to the new initiatives of our new users..
The best proof that we are not doing fine socially is by investigating our demographics... How many women, black people, minority people come to our conferences, congresses. Welcoming them does not require extra layers of bureaucracy, it needs a different approach. Thanks, GerardM
2009/11/7 wjhonson@aol.com
How about this one. Every arrest (read block for 24 hours or longer) must be approved by an "Admin Supervisor" (let's just call it for now). That Admin Supervisor, must use a Real Name and be Verified.
That by itself, would greatly cut down on the policing actions of those who are, shall we say, less scrupulous than others. Of course we'd still need a way to ensure that the Verified admin, is not the same person as a sock running the blocks, and is impartial, unbiased and uninvolved.
No block may be longer than 24 hours without the approval of the community-at-large, no matter what the infraction. Otherwise, we need a system of judges and juries who are *not* the same persons as the police and prison wardens. What we have now, essentially allows a single person, or a single group of "friends" to be police, prosecutor, jury, judge, bailiff, and warden. That in my opinion is what drives away a significant number of good prospects and it should stop.
We should not be requiring individuals to know ninety six rules just to thwart policemen who think they want to harass the person out of the project. Don't think it doesn't happen. It happens all the time. We need an Office of the Editor Advocate, and have it be obvious to all editors how to reach it.
Will Johnson
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