[TriLUG] Code of Conduct

[Greg Brown]

This very thing happened with me a couple (three?) years ago.  During my
four month "vacation" from employment thanks to my employer locking the
doors I responded to a job posting about how ridiculous I thought the whole
posting was.  A member thought this was inappropriate and contacted me
directly I saw his point and sent a public apology to the list.

Had that happened with the CoC would I be in danger of getting kicked off
the list forever?

I thought our self-policing was working but then again the group is getting
larger.  Still, I'm a little hesitant to go with a  formal document.

Greg

On 8/13/07, Phillip Rhodes <motley.crue.fan at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 8/13/07, Kevin Otte <nivex at nivex.net> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > I feel the CoC is a good idea.  It, as others have pointed out, lays out
> > and reinforces the already existing "gentlemen's agreement" we all
> > supposedly have.  As such, I fail to see why anyone is opposed to having
> > it written down.
> >
> >
> My only real objection to writing it down is that it then becomes a
> political issue.  People
> get to start quibbling over the exact content of it, the interpretation of
> it, and get to
> try and use it as a sword to attack people they may disagree with.
>
> My personal opinion is that the best solution is still three part:
>
> A. self-policing.  If somebody says something on the list that $SOMEBODY
> thinks
> is off-topic or inappropriate, let $SOMEBODY contact the poster (on list
> or
> off) and
> ask - respectfully - that they end that line of discussion.   And PLEASE,
> no
> responses
> back to that message if it was on-list!  Either the request will be
> respected or not.
> More meta-discussion at that point is just noise.
>
> B. If $SOMEBODY finds that the objectionable discussion is still
> continuing,
> kill-file
> the participants.
>
> C. Ultimately the in-place SC at any point in time uses their subjective
> interpretation of what's
> in the best interest of the LUG to decide whether or not to intervene, and
> to decide what the
> appropriate intervention is.
>
>
> I really don't think we're going to do much better than that, even if we
> do
> implement some
> written CoC.
>
>
> Phil
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