[OpenID] Mailing List Policies

[David Fuelling]

I have a problem with this language in the current list-policy document: "*With
great power comes great responsibility. People who violate the goodwill of
the list community will be unsubscribed swiftly. This responsibility lies
with the list admins who are charged with the stewardship of the community
lists.*"

First, it delegates to a single person (i.e., the list-admin) a power which
should probably be reserved for the Board.  IMHO, banning-authority should
be held by the Board because the decision to ban has the potenital to be
controversial, and since board members are elected they are to some degree
held accountable by the broader OpenID community.

Second, the procedures surrounding how somebody violates the "goodwill of
the list community" are unclear, which will likely lead to problems.

My opinion is that this should all be spelled out more clearly (with clear
consequences) in the Mailing-List policy doc.

Here's one alternative: "If the list admins recieve more than X complaints
against you, you will receive a warning from the list admin.  At the list
admin's discretion, you will be submitted to the board for banning."

That said, I would be open to allowing the list admin to temporarily ban a
user for a short duration (like 5 or 10 days), but only once.  Anything more
(especially a perma-ban) should be decided by the Board.

david

On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 1:58 AM, Chris Messina <chris.messina at gmail.com>wrote:

> I've gone ahead and adapted the microformats policy to our own:
>
> http://wiki.openid.net/Mailing-List-Policies
>
> This is a first draft and feedback is of course welcomed. I felt that
> rather than spinning our wheels on this list, we should have something
> concrete up to discuss.
>
> Please read it over and provide *specific* feedback.
>
> I took some of Shade's comments into consideration in this version.
>
> Chris
>
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