[Foundation-l] Friendliness: a radical proposal -- some proposed details ...

[WJhonson at aol.com]

The problem with the approach that we can let the "welcoming" and 
"friendliness" be an emergent behaviour, is that we're already many years into this 
and it's simply... not.

However the admin bit is an officially sanctioned method of enforcing 
rules.

This is a lop-sided approach.  To counter-balance the officially sanctioned 
rule enforcement, we need an *equally weighted* officially sanctioned 
welcoming committee type role that operates *on the level* of the editors exactly 
as an admin operates.

A person well-suited to be an admin, is not necessarily and sometimes 
diametrically opposed to a person well-suited to be a welcomer.

Whatever happened to the push to encourage editors to come back?

W