Re: [RFC] [Draft] Adopt Code of Conduct

> On Jan 4, 2016, at 22:31, Sara Golemon <pollita@php.net> wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 4, 2016 at 8:26 PM, Paul M. Jones <pmjones88@gmail.com> wrote: >> This RFC is not about "respect." It is about a cabal being able to ban at will, >> without supervision or oversight, based on their own whims. The "respect" bit is a velvet >> glove on an iron fist. >> > There is supervision, there is oversight. > The oversight is this list. Any council issuing temp-bans without > justification will be sanctioned. > I'm quite certain that you, among others, will see to that. If you wouldn't be comfortable with me, and others like me, being the voting members in the proposed Star Chamber, you should vote against this. Otherwise, it's just you being certain that only "the right-thinking kind of people" will be making decisions. Frankly the RFC should be turned down out of hand. Nothing even remotely resembling it is suitable for a free and open society. -- Paul M. Jones pmjones88@gmail.com http://paul-m-jones.com Modernizing Legacy Applications in PHP https://leanpub.com/mlaphp Solving the N+1 Problem in PHP https://leanpub.com/sn1php