Re: [gentoo-project] Re: Shutting down the Off the Wall

[Roy Bamford]

On 2020.12.05 10:36, Ulrich Mueller wrote:

[snip]
>
> I had really hoped that the moderators team would acknowledge that the
> current state of affairs with OTW is unacceptable, and come up with
> some
> plan of their own how to improve things.
>
>
> Ulrich
>

I suspect that has not happened because of the way that this has been 
mismanaged by council members from the outset, which has demotivated
many of the forum mods team. 

There is a well used reporting and escalation and appeal process in place.
It was not used.
Every post contains a 'Report' button. There were no reports.
The forum mods have an email alias that could have been used to report 
posts and wider issues. That didn't happen either.

Instead the initial report was an email to council on a closed list, with a 
CC: to the the forums team. When I learned email etiquette, in the late 
60's CC: meant for information only, no action required.
Clearly, the poster did not want the forums mods team to do anything. 

The council is supposed to be the final appeals body, not the first 
port of of call for anyone upset by something.

If the council want to be seen to following the process that they were 
elected to enforce, the only course of action is to refer the matter to the 
forum mods team. 

Any vote that short circuits the process council is supposed to enforce 
only brings council further into disrepute.

Its not too late for the council to recognise the damage they have done
to themselves in the eyes of the wider community and stop the 
mismanagement in its tracks by enforcing process.

-- 
Regards,

Roy Bamford
(Neddyseagoon) a member of
elections
gentoo-ops
forum-mods
arm64