Federation Policy
I think that while the Code of Conduct will take more time and effort, a simple Federation Policy might improve the Federated Timeline and the overall social.coop experience.
Federation Policy
- An instance will be silenced if it meets any of the following criteria:
- Explicitly allows something forbidden by Social.coop's Code of Conduct
- The instance has as one of its goals shitposting or the instance has no moderation policy.
The following are examples of any of the instances that would be silenced:
- sealion.club (shitposting)
- shitposter.club (shitposting)
- toot.love (no moderation)
Simon Grant
Mon 20 Aug 2018 10:19PM
Changed from agree: on reflection, I don't think the "standing jury" (name to be changed) is ready to do this yet, and a better name might help people see it more clearly.
Robert Benjamin
Mon 20 Aug 2018 10:52PM
Excepting that there should be a clear policy on process and documentation of the instances that are silenced and a way for a SC member to petition for a an unblocking if they felt there was cause.
Jake Beamish
Mon 20 Aug 2018 11:23PM
I think this is an appropriate job for the group known as the standing jury. However, I think strong evidence of harmful CoC-violating content or encouragement of it should be required. Should we reach out to admins before silencing?
Gil Scott Fitzgerald
Mon 20 Aug 2018 11:58PM
I'm not sure if it's fair for me to the standing jury more power as I'm a member of that group as well, but better to ask forgiveness than permission. If anyone disagrees with me voting I'll abstain, no hard feelings. :)
Matthew Cropp
Tue 21 Aug 2018 12:38AM
I think the proposal would be stronger w/o the CoC drafts element, as there's some contradictory stuff between the drafts, but I do support empowering the standing jury to make mute calls w/o having to run every mute past the full Working Group.
Becci Cat
Tue 21 Aug 2018 1:01AM
But there needs to be accountability - it needs to be possible for the coop at large to override such a decision.
Michele Kipiel
Tue 21 Aug 2018 5:53AM
I agree in principle, just let's be aware that "shitposting" is a very broad concept. The CoC part will likely be easier to check.
Michael
Wed 22 Aug 2018 7:10AM
This sounds like an efficient approach. As others have mentioned, I think it is important that there is transparency in the process and that if an instance it silenced, this should be communicated to all members, ideally on Social.Coop itself.
kawaiipunk
Thu 23 Aug 2018 5:34PM
Sounds good as an intermediate step.
G I McGrew
Sun 26 Aug 2018 4:41AM
I agree, but my vote is as abstain due to being on the jury myself.