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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 > > -- Karen Coyle [log in to unmask] http://kcoyle.net ph: 1-510-540-7596 m: 1-510-435-8234 skype: kcoylenet