Admin policy - Githubissues

gsingh93 commented 8 years ago

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iangcarroll commented 8 years ago

Also, we're changing terms to the 4th every three months, starting in January 2016. @gsingh93

zmughal commented 8 years ago

Document looks good on the whole. Nice job! I've added some line comments on the commit.

gsingh93 commented 8 years ago

@iangcarroll I agree with most of your comments, but I don't think having an exact time frame is required. Something like that can lead to people not having the time to leave comments or thoroughly read the changes. If admin's do a bad job handling PRs, that will come up during the elections. (Note the reason we have elections in the first place is so we don't have to strictly define all of these things, as the better admins will do all of these things without it being strictly specified in the policy).

zmughal commented 8 years ago

I have some more questions about banning:

Do we need to maintain a ban list along with reasons for why they were banned? I don't think that such a list should be public for reasons of searchability.
What would happen if the process of banning and subsequent unbanning occurs across two different administrations? I can see someone that is banned messaging admins in a new administration as a way to get back in. And since there is no way of auditing the bans transparently, this might be an issue.
Are the bans permanent? Or do we make a note for unbanning after N weeks? I know that makes things a little more complicated.

gsingh93 commented 8 years ago

Not sure about the list. We could keep a private list that any admin could see (maybe a private github repo). That would help address the next two points.

I think unbanning across administrations is fine. Again, we trust our admins to some extent, as we elected them. With a list of who was banned and why (as you suggested), they should be allowed to make this decision. However, if they unban, this should count as the user's "second chance", and fucking up again probably should not result in another unban later on.

I think bans should be permanent after a second chance.

iangcarroll commented 8 years ago

Let's set a date to close comments and another date to merge along with any fixes per the given comments.

gsingh93 commented 8 years ago

Maybe I should also add that purposefully deactivating your account while you're an admin is grounds for removal as an admin.

SCKelemen commented 8 years ago

@gsingh93 probably a good idea, as it could lead to a single admin, or an admin-less group

gsingh93 commented 8 years ago

Just updated the document. I'm fairly happy with it, please let me know if you have any other concerns. cc: @frankcash and @arirawr who haven't made any comments here yet.

frankcash commented 8 years ago

:+1:

iangcarroll commented 8 years ago

We should document what happens if an admin resigns or leaves.

gsingh93 commented 8 years ago

Updated.

wearehx / policies

Admin policy #10