On Sun, Mar 17, 2019 at 07:50:40AM -0600, brynn wrote:
Well, the CoC is specific about a complaint about a moderator. ("If you believe you have been unfairly penalized by a moderator, you may contact Inkscape's board. Decisions of the board are final.")
Are you talking about other moderators taking some kind of action (well, demoting that moderator, I guess)? Or maybe just a mutual mentoring of each other? I envision moderators collaborating as much as possible - we even have a board only for moderators. I would hope the collaboration would keep us mostly all on the same page.
Yes, that's exactly what I'm thinking. Yes, board escalation is a valid path if things get really sticky, but my hope is that will be extraordinarily rare, and that the moderators themselves have the ability to take care of most problems themselves.
It's so hard to think in terms of the worst case scenario, when as a whole, that has been very rare. I agree that it's good to have it covered. I just find it hard to write about it, when so many potential situations have never happened. And they have so many potential solutions.
Yeah, I can see that. And honestly it's not like the guidelines can't be adapted as we go and things come up. We can course correct.
It'll make a great foundation to build on.
Aaww, and here I thought it was almost finished. Or do you mean build on over the years?
Exactly. :-) Living document and such.
As I said in my reply to Martin, I don't know where it's supposed to live. I think it would work well to have a Forum Moderators team (on the website Teams page) and this document would be the Charter. On the other hand, as a governing document (as it were), perhaps SFC should hold it?
Yeah just in the team section of the website sounds like the proper place for it.
Bryce