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On July 1, 2014 1:02:34 PM EDT, Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o> wrote: |
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>On Tue, Jul 1, 2014 at 12:41 PM, hasufell <hasufell@g.o> wrote: |
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>> From what I see you are on both council and comrel. I think that is a |
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>> conflict of interest. |
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>The term "conflict of interest" gets thrown around rather loosely IMHO. |
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>A conflict of interest is when somebody stands to personally gain from |
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>a decision. If somebody on the council or comrel banned you from an |
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>IRC channel, and you brought this to comrel, then it would be a |
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>conflict of interest if the accused party voted on their own case. |
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>Anything short of this really isn't a true conflict IMHO. |
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>Many courts will hear appeals with a small number of judges with the |
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>possibility to appeal to a larger set of judges, and the original |
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>judges get to vote in both cases. That isn't a conflict of interest - |
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>just division of labor. |
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>When you appeal a Comrel case to the Council the purpose of the appeal |
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>is to decide what to do with the parties involved - it isn't a |
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>judgement on Comrel itself, though Comrel should be guided by the |
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>decision in any future actions it takes. |
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>Anybody dissatisfied with a Comrel decision can appeal to Council, |
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>which is a group of 7 people selected by the developer community to |
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>represent them. |
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>But, anyone is free to not vote for Comrel members. |
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>Rich |
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Moreover, I think that anyone who is both comrel/council would recuse himself from a vote if it the vote's outcome directly affected him. That is, if I were to (for example) start a comrel complaint against dilfridge, and then appealed it to council, I'm certain that he would abstain from voting in the matter because that is explicitly a conflict of interest since one of the vote options clearly benefits him. If he voted on a case that he handled as a member of comrel, however, that isn't a conflict of interest because he doesn't stand to gain from the vote (unless comrel starts rewarding people for getting the most "convictions," in which case I think we have bigger problems to deal with...) |
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Chris Reffett |
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