On Sat, May 15, 2021 at 7:12 AM Papirfoldning.dk <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On 15 May 2021, at 03.12, Anne LaVin <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > As many of you may know, there's been a bit of an explosion recently > over the topic of adoption of Codes of Conduct (aka "CoC") at Origami > conventions, and lots of very heated online discussion, primarily on the > Facebook platform. > It is always useful from time to time to remind ourselves how to interact > at social media. > > For the many of us who have not followed any Facebook discussions on > origami and CoC, could somebody try to summarise the main positions > neutrally? That is, plainly state the goals and arguments without loaded > words. I assume there are at least two positions, probably more. > I'm not sure I know of a thoroughly neutral party who could do this, and I'm going to stay out of the conversation to moderate the list traffic. Also, I'd like the actual discussion to start tomorrow, Sunday, not today, to give everyone time to adjust their list settings and think about the topic. But the kernel of the issue is: there have been incidents, of varying degrees of severity from harassment to physical assault, at origami conventions and inside the origami community at large. Some community members believe that all convention organizers should adopt some form of a CoC for handling any incidents, and others do not. The discussion on FB got extremely heated, and the vagaries of the FB interface created too many, impossible-to-follow threads. We're offering the O-list as a content-persistent, open forum so anyone who wishes to talk about it publicly may do so. I have some further procedural thoughts which I'll share separately. Anne
