I agree with removing the list of "sanctions."

Cary

On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 11:14 AM, Karen Coyle <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Peter,
>
> I removed the list of sanctions because it seemed unnecessarily ...punitive.
> Sometimes, the whole "incident" may consist only of reminding someone that
> their language has inadvertently offended. I wouldn't want it to sound like
> someone would get kicked out of a c4l conference for an off-hand comment --
> that is, something that some of us would see as "non-PC" but still common in
> our world. So if we add a few sanctions that we think would be necessary
> only in cases of overt harassment, that's ok with me. But I see the best
> role of the policy to allow a certain amount of "education" to take place,
> and that "punishment" would only be used in extreme cases. We all make
> mistakes -- and I wouldn't want to create an atmosphere where people are
> afraid to speak up. Appropriately to this community, it's like coding: you
> get a compiler error, and you learn. You only get kicked off the system if
> you do real damage.
>
> kc
>
>
> On 12/3/12 10:46 AM, Peter Murray wrote:
>>
>> I may have inadvertently logged a pull request when I made some minor
>> edits to you changes:
>>
>>    https://github.com/code4lib/antiharassment-policy/pull/20
>>
>> First off, kcoyle++.  I like the rethinking of the focus of the document.
>> I added a missing work and tweaked a few other words.  The pull request has
>> some other discussion about removing the list of potential sanctions; I
>> don't know if that was intentional or not, but I think putting the list of
>> sanctions at the end would be helpful.
>>
>>
>> Peter
>>
>> On Dec 2, 2012, at 11:15 AM, Karen Coyle <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>>
>>> I did a somewhat radical edit of the policy. To me it sounded
>>> heavy-handed, and I didn't think that we needed such in our community. I
>>> also want to distinguish between "bloopers" that need correction and
>>> active harassment. A lot of discriminatory language is unconscious but
>>> still should be gently corrected. [1]
>>>
>>> I also don't think that these are "rules" -- a policy is a policy, and I
>>> think rules is too strong a term.
>>>
>>> Because of the amount that I changed (and because I really wasn't sure
>>> what would happen when I hit "save") these changes are still in my
>>> "fork":
>>>
>>> https://github.com/kcoyle/antiharassment-policy
>>>
>>> Let me know if I should commit it (and I'm assuming that's just a matter
>>> of hitting the "commit" button).
>>>
>>> kc
>>>
>>> [1] It's from the 90's, but http://kcoyle.net/howhard.html has many
>>> examples
>>
>>
>>
>
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