I fully agree with the proposed policy. It appears to me that there is no consensus among the dozen or so contributurs in what is considered off topic or offensive. Therefore, I would hope that such a policy reduces tension.
If possible (and the policy is adopted), it might be extra-nice if the code of conduct committee would also contact the author of the comment which is marked as off topic. In the case at hand, I would not know how to clarify the situation in a friendly way other than the way I tried. Before the comment was marked as off topic, I thought that asking on sage-devel would not be friendly, and asking privately (by looking up Matthias' email) would be intrusive. So, in an ideal world, maybe the code of conduct committee could in such a case suggest a different way / venue to proceed. I realize that this is asking for a lot. Best wishes, Martin On Thursday 22 August 2024 at 23:19:36 UTC+2 David Roe wrote: > We are starting this thread for two reasons. > > 1. Kwankyu asked for clarity on who can mark comments as off topic. > 2. You marked this comment > <https://github.com/sagemath/sage/pull/38219#issuecomment-2283629487> as > off-topic, which asked for clarification on the action you had just taken > removing the disputed label, and then several additional comments on that > PR. > > Since our project is fairly new to github, we have not yet developed norms > for using its moderation features. We are starting this thread to discuss > such norms with the community. We made one proposal, but are open to > others, which is why we asked for discussion rather than a vote. > David > > On Thu, Aug 22, 2024 at 2:32 PM Matthias Koeppe <matthia...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> On Thursday, August 22, 2024 at 11:08:48 AM UTC-7 John H Palmieri wrote: >> >> This message comes from the Code of Conduct Committee, in response to a >> question >> from Kwankyu >> <https://groups.google.com/g/sage-devel/c/N1THlmVDm-w/m/mZY1aEOBCAAJ> >> (labeled A1 in his message) about the authority to mark a comment as off >> topic, and more generally about hiding comments. >> >> Proposed policy regarding hiding comments on GitHub: except for marking >> and hiding comments as spam, which anyone with appropriate permissions >> should do as necessary, the Sage Code of Conduct Committee has the sole >> responsibility for hiding comments, marking them off-topic, etc. >> >> Discussion? >> >> >> John, you should probably try to explain what problem, if any, you are >> trying to solve. >> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "sage-devel" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to sage-devel+...@googlegroups.com. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sage-devel/3e3b88e1-8b25-45a6-aa34-0324320249a4n%40googlegroups.com >> >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sage-devel/3e3b88e1-8b25-45a6-aa34-0324320249a4n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sage-devel/7dbcfb6b-f1db-43fd-b792-dd08110c41fan%40googlegroups.com.
