[OpenID] On the banning of Santosh

[Brett McDowell]

On Nov 30, 2009, at 8:47 AM, Andrew Arnott wrote:

> It sounds to me like everyone agrees that perhaps the ideal order of handling an issue like this is "guidance -> warning -> banning".

Actually, the exchange between Dick and David opens up a new approach that might prove to be common ground between those that want banning and those that oppose it.  What if the process is modified to "guidance -> warning -> moderating" and we take banning off the table?  

Our first concern with this might be the logistics of finding someone the community will trust who also has the time and energy to agree to moderating a given subscriber who has been put on this type of "probation".  One way to remove the logistical concerns would be for OIDF to provide this as a service to the community.  Since no one wants moderation of technical substance, I don't think the moderator need be a subject matter expert and therefore perhaps someone from the OIDF Secretariat (Global Inventures?) could take this on, on an as needed basis?  This service should be invoked quite rarely... perhaps this one episode will actually be the last.