[Foundation-l] Board Resolution: Openness

[Fred Bauder]

> On Sat, Apr 9, 2011 at 06:46, Milos Rancic <millosh at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Besides that, there should be limits on sanctions. For example, I think
>> that we should limit all non-spam as well as some troll-like behavior
>> blocks to, let's say, two years.
>
> There's a bit of a contradiction here, Milos. If we want to attract
> new editors and keep existing ones, the way to do that is to reduce
> the trolling and disruption, not welcome back people who've caused it.
> The trolling and general silliness is (anecdotally) one of the main
> reasons established editors have been leaving, and it must be
> incredibly off-putting to new people too.
>
> Sarah

We need to do both things at once: near-zero tolerance AND ready, indeed,
near automatic, coded, forgiveness.

And, of course, that should not apply to people who cause serious
problems, or their facilitators.

Fred