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Salam Yamout
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Fri Nov 22 18:49:35 CET 2019
I agree with Sasha On Fri, Nov 22, 2019, 20:03 Sasha Romijn <sasha at mxsasha.eu> wrote: > Hello Jim, > > On 21 Oct 2019, at 10:37, Jim Reid <jim at rfc1035.com> wrote: > > The TF need to consider other options. A range of sanctions are possible. > > A range of resolutions (the proposed CoC does not use the term > “sanctions”) are already in the document. > > Perhaps it helps as well if I offer some context. From my personal > experience being on several CoC teams, and seeing reports from other teams, > over the last several years, I’d say that 80-90% of reports I’ve been > involved with are resolved with what the draft calls a private reprimand. > We contact the person, tell them that what happened is not acceptable and > explain why. They understand, apologise, and don’t do it again (as far as > we know). The reporter is almost always happy with that resolution as well, > so the situation is resolved. > > I have dealt with reports where more serious resolutions were decided > upon. One form is intentional escalation, where the person continues and > escalates their behaviour intentionally. The other common form are reports > which are so serious that a more serious resolution is needed. > > To share a few examples where a more serious action than a simple > reprimand was taken: > - Someone who was permanently denied participation after behaviour was > addressed by a private reprimand, and they continued to escalate up to the > point of making death threats to a CoC team member. > - Someone who caused several separate incidents due to severely excessive > alcohol use, was warned that any further incident would lead to permanently > being denied participation to further conferences. That person improved > their behaviour and is still an active member of that community. In fact, > they were, and continue to be, very grateful that our team forced them to > confront a serious drinking problem. > - Someone who vandalised a poster with a hateful message calling for > genocide on a particular demographic. I would have been strongly in favour > of permanently denying participation. Unfortunately the person was never > identified. I also can’t say for sure whether that would have been the > team’s consensus, as we never progressed to that discussion. > - Someone who made death threats against a conference organiser (which was > more severe than the first example, as when both parties may be at the > conference, the threat has much more credibility). > - Someone who made repeated statements to the organisers that they were > not planning to follow the CoC, but had not made any serious violations. > The person was informed that the CoC was not optional, and that if they > felt unable to follow the CoC, they would not be able to participate in the > community. However, it was stressed that they were still entirely welcome > in the future otherwise. The person indicated they were not interested in > participating any further. > > I don’t know if the ratios in resolutions map to the RIPE community as > well, as the other communities in which I’ve done this work had already > made much more progress in diversity and inclusivity than the RIPE > community. > > In this context, I continue to be surprised that the idea that someone may > be, in theory, denied further participation, appears to be so controversial > in this community. Does this community honestly believe that in the cases > above, denying participation is excessive? And as Brian and I said in our > RIPE79 session, doing nothing will also deny people participation - we’ll > just be denying participation to their targets instead. > > Sasha > > > > _______________________________________________ > diversity mailing list > diversity at ripe.net > https://lists.ripe.net/mailman/listinfo/diversity > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://lists.ripe.net/ripe/mail/archives/diversity/attachments/20191122/545db8d7/attachment.html>
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