Taking my coc hat off, I'm not representing the committee at all.
Several things have been misunderstood imo. I want to address them.
1) The use of profanity is not prohibited by the COC, using them against
others or for unconstructive reasons is. If you see the whole discussion,
you could clearly see the comment is not made to move discussion forward.
These are clear case of disruptive actions.
1.1) the response to these violations depends on the user, very similar to
what Wikipedia does. If it was the first case reported about Mz, they
wouldn't get this ban.
2) the duration of block which is for one week was determined and
communicated in the email. You can check the email as it's public now.
3) not being able to discuss cases clearly also bothers me too as I can't
clarify points. But these secrecy is there for a reason. We have cases of
sexual harassment in Wikimedia events, do you want us to communicate those
too? And if not, where and who supposed to draw the line between public and
non-public cases? I'm very much for more transparency but if we don't iron
things out before implementing them, it will end up as a disaster.
Sent on my phone, on a vacation.
Best
On Wed, Aug 8, 2018, 21:49 Chad <innocentkiller(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Wed, Aug 8, 2018 at 11:48 AM bawolff
<bawolff+wn(a)gmail.com> wrote:
So MZMcBride is temporarily banned for an
unspecified amount of time.
I have some concerns:
a) The fact all these are secret is a recipe for FUD and
misunderstandings. From accusations of partiality of the committee to
people being unblocked because people think its an accident, are all
natural consequences of things being secret. I think this is bound to
create a negative environment in the long term.
This.
b) What is the point of blocking him temporarily
and not telling him
how long he's banned for. That's just silly.
I'm going to quote someone out of context here, but I think it establishes
the point I'd like to make:
"temporary solutions have a terrible habit of becoming permanent, around
here"
-Chad
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