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On 03/04/18 02:01, Rich Freeman wrote: |
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> On Mon, Apr 2, 2018 at 8:40 PM, Matthias Maier <tamiko@g.o> wrote: |
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>> - overruling council (and comrel?) decisions with a 2:1 majority |
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> While I could see this making sense for most Council/QA decisions, I'm |
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> skeptical of how this could work for Comrel, given that nobody would |
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> have anything to go off of, unless we made these matters public. |
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> I could see it possibly working if we made it clear that there is no |
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> expectation of privacy for anybody bringing a complaint, and that the |
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> entire matter would be made public if the accused wished to appeal it |
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> to a general resolution. Then it would be up to the person who was |
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> subject to discipline to allow a general vote. If they did not allow |
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> this, then the Council (or Comrel, if no appeal) would have the final |
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> say and it could not be appealed. If they did allow this, then the |
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> entire record would be made public and available for a general vote. |
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> The accused would have full access to the record before deciding |
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> whether to make it public, so there would be no surprises. |
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> I'm not a super-big fan of this, but I see it as the only reasonable |
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> way to let Comrel decisions turn into a general resolution. Otherwise |
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> people basically have to vote blind. |
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> On the flip side, it would let the accused leave quietly with no |
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> public defamation/etc if they so wished, but in doing so they wouldn't |
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> really have much room to complain about the process being closed, |
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> since they were the one who decided to keep it that way. On the other |
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> hand, if they insisted on a public proceeding then everybody can |
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> decide for themselves what is appropriate. |
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> The main downside is that we'd need to make it clear to anybody |
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> issuing a complaint that they would not get a say in whether what they |
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> submit was shared with the accused or the public. Otherwise we would |
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> be taking that decision out of the accused's hands, and it basically |
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> defeats the point in having this sort of appeal available. This might |
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> potentially have a chilling effect on anybody who might want to bring |
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> a complaint, since it could become public if the accused so desired. |
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> Either way I think things like this are best made clear up-front so |
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> there are no surprises. |
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Pardon my unwanted opinion, but that sounds like a seriously verbose |
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'yes' .. or at least firm 'maybe' ... |