Re: [gentoo-project] Gentoo Code of Conduct

[Rich Freeman <rich@thefreemanclan.net>]

On Sun, May 26, 2013 at 9:58 AM, Ian Stakenvicius <axs@gentoo.org> wrote:
> Alternatively, it empowers any dev to help stop this behaviour, rather
> than just the moderators.  Sort of the same way bullying needs to be
> dealt with -- if the whole community takes responsibility for treating
> it as unacceptable, and calls on it right away, then things are a lot
> more effective than relegating to a relatively small set of
> authorities (although of course, there will always be a need for those
> authorities too).

By all means try it out, but I suspect that such a system will
generally just preserve the status quo.  Maybe that is fine, but I
doubt that counting on everybody to send 100 off-list emails to the
offender every time somebody gets out of line seems unlikely to work.

Rich