The Fedora Board has been revisiting the Hall Monitors policy, and has drawn several conclusions: * It is not practically possible for the Hall Monitors to quantify non-constructiveness of a mailing list thread, and any attempt to do so runs the risk of bias (whether perceived or actual), as well as significantly increasing the workload of the Hall Monitors. * The original purpose of the Hall Monitors was to address individuals who were not being "excellent to each other" in their postings to Fedora Project mailing lists. * The Hall Monitor policy has been updated to remove the responsibility for monitoring group behavior. Hall Monitors will no longer be responsible for closing threads, only for addressing and handling issues where individual posts in those threads are out of line with the "be excellent to each other" motto, including, but not limited to: personal attacks, profanity directed at people or groups, serious threats of violence, or other things seen by the monitor as to be purposefully disrespectful or harmful to the Fedora Community. * The Hall Monitors are not a solution to the problem of poisonous people, but rather, a method of addressing the symptom of the problem. The Fedora Board feels that it is important to resolve both the problem and the symptoms, and is open to suggestions on how to both: - discourage/prevent poisonous behavior in the Fedora Community - improve how we address occurrences of poisonous behavior when they occur in the Fedora Community Thanks, Tom "spot" Callaway, on behalf of the Fedora Board _______________________________________________ advisory-board mailing list advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/advisory-board
