On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 02:15:13PM +0000, Ted Lemon wrote: > > The path is harassment->ombudsbeing, not harassment->wg chair. I > would expect the ombudsperson to push back at this point unless > something inappropriate was said. If someone says "that's a stupid > idea, because FOO" and "because FOO" is valid, then it would be > appropriate for the ombudsperson to say to the offending party, "you > know, you didn't need to say that was a stupid idea—all you needed > to say was 'because FOO.'". OTOH, if the offending party said "I'm > going to cut off a deer's head and leave it in your refrigerator if > you don't stop denying that FOO," then that would elicit a different > response. What about a slide presentation in a wg discussion in perpass which included the following image? http://blog.chron.com/nickanderson/tag/nsa/ Bjoern Hoehrmann has already asserted he believes it would be considered harassment. - Ted