And, as occurred in this case, they should be talked to about whether
they understand the problem and are willing to change their behavior.
If not, and if they demonstrate they are unwilling to modify their
behavior, then we as a community are obliged to take explicit steps to
prevent the bad behavior.
Yours,
Joel
On 10/7/2022 3:32 PM, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
On Fri, Oct 07, 2022 at 04:38:30PM +0100, Jay Daley wrote:
Would you care to restate it in terms of his actions and
behavior rather than his intentions?
My statement above is indeed a statement of actions and behaviour.
It is an objective fact that his post had no content that was not
ridicule. My statement is therefore, to use a phrase from your
postscript, based solely on observable behaviour and nothing else.
You or others might wish to speculate on a motive not inherent in
the text that somehow alters the seriousness of that post, but I
don’t think that would be appropriate for me to do when making
moderation decisions.
I have to agree with Jay here. If someone introduces race into a
discussion about masking, that should be raising all sorts of red
flags. Whether it is because that person doesn't have the awareness
about why that might not be a good thing to do, or was doing it with
malice aforethought, IMHO, doesn't matter. It has the potential of
being highly divisive, and trolling, and again, if someone can't
figure that out, then maybe their ability to post should be restricted
for a time, until they can figure that out.
- Ted
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