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On Wed, Feb 07, 2018 at 10:41:11PM -0700, Daniel Robbins wrote: |
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> The current bylaws are sufficient. |
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> Threats should not be tolerated. It seems like right now, all it takes are |
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> the trustees to vote on it to remove that member. Your addition leaves it |
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> up to interpretation whether specified events fit the criteria you define, |
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> which just make it more confusing than a simple vote of trustees in the |
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> first place. |
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All of our policies are written in a natural language, which leaves them |
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open to interpretation by a human. How would you improve the wording of |
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the criteria? |
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> So I don't think any of this helps; and with the videos at the end, it just |
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> kind of seems paranoid. |
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The intent was to show that the phenomenon is real and poses a threat to |
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us. The all-caps warning was being respectful of the circumstances that |
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people may be reading the list under. I thought I put enough thought and |
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effort into my recommendation to not be written off and disregarded as |
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paranoid. In an age where information is gathered en masse and |
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often misused against people, I hardly consider it paranoid to be |
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concerned about the safety of our members. |
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Which bylaw(s) already cover legal threats? 4.9 is a bylaw with broad, |
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general language that is also subject to interpretation. Our Code of |
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Conduct does not cover this behavior, either. The closest thing is |
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"mean-spirited", which is actually *less* specific than what I outlined. |
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It comes down to this: these events *can* and *do* happen, and some of |
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our members *have* threatened legal action in response to situations |
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they didn't like. There is no denying any of that. What will Gentoo do |
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about it when it's one of our own who loses their job or their life at |
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the hands of an angry person with a phone? Should we stand by and wait |
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until damage is done before acting? I think we can do better than that. |
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As mentioned in my prior mail, it's a draft. Patches welcome. |
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> -Daniel |
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> On Wed, Feb 7, 2018 at 9:50 PM, zlg <zlg@g.o> wrote: |
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> >[snip] |
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