Re: [gentoo-dev] Living in a bubble [gentoo-proctor] Warning^2

[Grant Goodyear <g2boojum@gentoo.org>]

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Chris Gianelloni wrote: [Tue Jun 05 2007, 05:00:28PM CDT]
> As a member of the Council, I find it personally offensive that the
> Proctors have taken this action on what wasn't even a "problem" thread.
> I'm sick of this.  I call for the immediate disbanding of the Proctors.
> 
> As much as I dislike many of the posts from geoman/ciaranm, they really
> had not done anything worthy of being banned.  I ask that this ban is
> undone *immediately* and that the Proctors have their powers revoked.

*Sigh*  I, too, was quite surprised to see people banned for what
appeared to be reasonable behavior (in this case).  That said, I wish
you'd started w/ a more temperate response, instead of going all nuclear
on the proctors.  It's likely to create some hard feelings, and that
just makes things harder to fix.

So, how about using this incident as an opportunity for a calm
discussion about the mandate and role of the proctors?  The proctors
clearly felt that they should shut down this thread _before_ things
got out of hand.  Perhaps the goal was laudable, but the methods were
not?  (As an aside, I didn't realize that Roy's e-mail was supposed to
be a proctor directive.)  Or are people really looking for the proctors
to get involved only when behavior is particularly egregious?  Is there
a way to fix the current system, or should it be chucked entirely, as
has been suggested?  

Well reasoned thoughts and opinions welcome.

-g2boojum-
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