Re: Should mailing list bans be published?

2013-11-04 Thread Uoti Urpala
Russ Allbery wrote: > Camaleón writes: > > > The mailing list managers/admins have the right to ban whoever they > > decide, but in the aim of "fair play", the user should also have the > > right to defend him/herself from the accusations, expose his/her > > reasoning and be able to restore him/h

Re: Should mailing list bans be published?

2013-11-04 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Mon, Nov 04, 2013 at 02:33:34PM -0500, Brian Gupta a écrit : > > I don't know the answer but perhaps, we can try experimenting with a system > where the first action is a polite public warning by listmaster, pointing to > code of conduct. (Assuming that the code of conduct is updated to cover >

Re: Should mailing list bans be published?

2013-11-04 Thread Brian Gupta
On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 12:17 PM, Russ Allbery wrote: > Camaleón writes: > >> The mailing list managers/admins have the right to ban whoever they >> decide, but in the aim of "fair play", the user should also have the >> right to defend him/herself from the accusations, expose his/her >> reasoning

Re: Should mailing list bans be published?

2013-11-04 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 04 Nov 2013 09:17:29 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > Camaleón writes: > >> The mailing list managers/admins have the right to ban whoever they >> decide, but in the aim of "fair play", the user should also have the >> right to defend him/herself from the accusations, expose his/her >> reaso

Re: Should mailing list bans be published?

2013-11-04 Thread Russ Allbery
Camaleón writes: > The mailing list managers/admins have the right to ban whoever they > decide, but in the aim of "fair play", the user should also have the > right to defend him/herself from the accusations, expose his/her > reasoning and be able to restore him/her reputation or recognize the >

Re: Should mailing list bans be published?

2013-11-04 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 26 Oct 2013 10:46:41 -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > Hi folks, > > Was discussing with one of the listmasters (Alexander Wirt) on IRC today > about mailing list bans, because it turns out that someone I was just > about to ask the listmasters to ban from debian-devel had just been > blocke

Re: Should mailing list bans be published?

2013-11-04 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
Le lundi, 4 novembre 2013 15.08:05 Stefano Zacchiroli a écrit : > On Mon, Nov 04, 2013 at 02:51:52PM +0100, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > > > So, what would be the beneficial social effects of publishing the > > > ban *duration*? > > > > The ban duration is an indication of how severe we think the > >

Re: Should mailing list bans be published?

2013-11-04 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Mon, Nov 04, 2013 at 02:51:52PM +0100, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > > So, what would be the beneficial social effects of publishing the ban > > *duration*? > > The ban duration is an indication of how severe we think the violation > is. You don't get a lifetime ban for a minor transgression and yo

Re: Should mailing list bans be published?

2013-11-04 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Stefano Zacchiroli > So, what would be the beneficial social effects of publishing the ban > *duration*? The ban duration is an indication of how severe we think the violation is. You don't get a lifetime ban for a minor transgression and you don't get a one-day ban for serious harassments.

Re: Should mailing list bans be published?

2013-11-04 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Mon, Nov 04, 2013 at 02:21:17PM +0100, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote: > I disagree on the point of not making the ban durations public. Although > I understand the effect you're afraid of, I think that the benefits of > having the durations public outweigh the downsides: even if the banned > per

Re: Should mailing list bans be published?

2013-11-04 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
Hi Jonathan, Le dimanche, 3 novembre 2013 14.06:33 Jonathan Dowland a écrit : > I think bans should be time-limited in > almost all cases, with perma-bans being very rare indeed. I don't > think that ban durations should be disclosed publically or to the > person banned