Reporting Guidelines: Feedback for revisions
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On July 30th @ 14:00UTC another zoom conversation will take place with regards to the ongoing creation of Reporting Guidelines and Code of Conduct.
We are soliciting feedback from the entire membership of social.coop to inform areas of concern that should be discussed and/or have been overlooked in the writing of the reporting guidelines to date.
Here is the latest version of the Reporting Guidelines: https://pad.disroot.org/p/iA1MGxaLAq#
I have attached a pdf of the guidelines should you not be able to access the online version above.
Please note that there is a 'points for discussion' at the bottom of the document.
Matt Noyes Fri 27 Jul 2018 3:24AM
Good point. Can you think of wording for this, to add to the document? I'm not sure what would work.
Gil Scott Fitzgerald Fri 27 Jul 2018 3:41AM
IMO we should strike the entire sentence - it ties our hands in the event of a serious abuser, whether they're a reporter or a reportee
Matt Noyes Fri 27 Jul 2018 3:56AM
I added your suggestion as a comment on the etherpad doc linked above.
Gil Scott Fitzgerald Fri 27 Jul 2018 4:08AM
Thanks
Matt Noyes Fri 27 Jul 2018 3:22AM
Thanks for posting this Emi!
Mayel de Borniol Sat 28 Jul 2018 3:31PM
I highly recommend reviewing the work of folks at Enspiral and Loomio on this:
https://handbook.enspiral.com/agreements/personal_conduct.html
https://handbook.enspiral.com/agreements/harassment_and_abuse.html
https://handbook.enspiral.com/guides/conflict-resolution.html
and more generally: https://www.thehum.org/resources
Matt Noyes Sat 28 Jul 2018 4:19PM
Thanks Mayel, I think. ;-) The problem is that I like this enspiral material a lot -- tbh I would happy to just copy/paste most of it -- at the same time I find the prospect of going through all this and comparing it to what we all have produced after many iterations exhausting. What would be a big help would be for someone involved in Enspiral to look at the most recent CoC docs and highlight problem areas where the Enspiral material could be used.
Mayel de Borniol Sat 28 Jul 2018 4:35PM
Good point. You could try asking @richdecibels who is on social.coop, would be great to have those folks directly involved!
mike_hales Sun 29 Jul 2018 7:14AM
Francesca Pick could be the person? She's Enspiral ambassador for community development and new governance models. She was at Open2018 this last week, gave a couple of presentations - Mayel, you may have talked to her? https://enspiral.com/pages/people
But not on social.coop.
Gil Scott Fitzgerald · Fri 27 Jul 2018 2:58AM
I can't make the meeting but the wording "In some cases the [CWG] may determine that a public statement will need to be made. If that's the case, the identities of all victims and reporters will remain confidential unless those individuals instruct us otherwise." seems to imply that the CWG would not be empowered to release the name of a person violating the CoC under any circumstance.
I hope that in the event of an ongoing threat to our members or members of the community writ large (e.g. a repeat abuser or predator) that S.C would be empowered to warn the public.