Standing "Jury"/"Referee" Group
The community working group recently approved the formation of a body of members to which instance moderators can receive guidance for reports that they feel are ambiguous or that they otherwise can't act. We'll use this thread for discussions of this group, and the language that was approved by the Community Working Group may be read below:
> "I propose the creation of a “Standing Jury” that will be empowered to decide moderation situations and reports brought forward to it by the Community Operations Team that monitors social.coop spaces, so that situations can be processed by a trusted and formally empowered group without needing to involve the wider membership in every case.
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>The jury shall consist of seven (7) members who will serve a six (6) month term from the date of their election. The members will be volunteers drawn from the general membership Loomio group via a check poll, and will be elected via approval voting (vote for as many or few candidates as you like) with secret ballot.
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>The Jury will do its work in a Loomio sub-group with privacy setting at secret to preserve the privacy of its deliberations, and if a member of the Jury is the subject of the deliberations, that individual shall recuse themselves from the group for the duration of that case."
Poll Created Sun 29 Jul 2018 9:47PM
Call for Volunteers for the Social.coop "Standing Jury" (or "Referee Group") Closed Sat 4 Aug 2018 9:01PM
Thanks to everyone who responded! We have 11 volunteers for the 7 seats, so I will post the ballot tonight, which will be open for voting for 6 days... :)
The Community Working group recently approved the formation of a 7-member body for a 6-month term with the task of providing guidance to the folks doing the moderation work for social.coop. If you are interested in being a candidate for that role, please vote 'yes' in this poll and include your social.coop instance handle in your vote comment.
This poll will be open for 6 days, and will be followed by an election. The language approved by the Community Working Group is as follows:
>I propose the creation of a “Standing Jury” that will be empowered to decide moderation situations and reports brought forward to it by the Community Operations Team that monitors social.coop spaces, so that situations can be processed by a trusted and formally empowered group without needing to involve the wider membership in every case.
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> The jury shall consist of seven (7) members who will serve a six (6) month term from the date of their election. The members will be volunteers drawn from the general membership Loomio group via a check poll, and will be elected via approval voting (vote for as many or few candidates as you like) with secret ballot.
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> The Jury will do its work in a Loomio sub-group with privacy setting at secret to preserve the privacy of its deliberations, and if a member of the Jury is the subject of the deliberations, that individual shall recuse themselves from the group for the duration of that case.
Results
Results | Option | Voters | |||
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Yes | 9 | |||
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No | 6 | |||
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Undecided | 88 |
15 of 103 people have participated (14%)
Matthew Cropp
Sun 29 Jul 2018 9:48PM
I am the ops team person with this role right now, so this body is who I'll be consulting when I hit a situation where additional guidance is needed. :)
Gil Scott Fitzgerald
Sun 29 Jul 2018 9:49PM
@gilscottfitzgerald
G I McGrew
Sun 29 Jul 2018 9:50PM
I would like to be of help. @thesciencerobot
mike_hales
Mon 30 Jul 2018 8:20AM
Good move, strength to your arm/s
Michele Kipiel
Tue 31 Jul 2018 6:38AM
Great stuff
Michele Kipiel
Tue 31 Jul 2018 6:39AM
Great stuff (@[email protected])