On Fri, 2020-03-13 at 13:16 +0100, Michal Kubecek wrote:
On Friday, 13 March 2020 12:38 Richard Brown wrote:
You call a vote of no confidence in the Board because they _did_their_job_ in enforcing our Code of Conduct..then say that you want a healthy community where our Code of Conduct is valued?
I see that as undefensible hypocracy.
First, it's "hypocrisy".
Second, if there is a hypocrisy, it's telling the public that someone (reportedly) violated the CoC (which puts them into a really bad light) and putting embargo on any details of that violation - so that public cannot make their own mind about it - while pretending it's "to protect them".
It's often to protect everybody. You wouldn't expect a company to send an all-staff email explaining why every employee ever got fired for disciplinary reasons, would you? Speaking from my past experience, as someone who has 'passed judgement' in Code of Conduct violations, even in the most egregious cases, where the acts of the accused were potentially criminal, I always felt sympathy for them, in addition to their victims of course. We're a community of volunteers, and that still commands respect, even when individuals drift out of line of our Guiding Principles. No one deserves their name being dragged through the mud. I respect the current Board for clearly doing their best to avoid that in the recent cases. I think we should be a project where even severe breaches of our Guiding Principles can be handled in a way that preserve as much of a place as possible in the Project for everyone involved. And such delicate cases mean things like resignations to save face rather than public shaming should be the norm.
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