Hiya, On 03/18/2014 11:55 PM, Pete Resnick wrote: > > If the ombudsfolk are exceedingly busy, I would suggest that it's more > than the setup of the procedures that is a failure, and that we have a > deeper problem to examine. I am trying to be optimistic that the mere > discussion of these topics while we develop these procedures will cause > people to check their behavior and thereby make the ombudspersons' job > exceedingly boring. We're agreeing about the desired steady-state. I do think there's value including language along those lines, to ameliorate any concerns that the ombudspeople will become the PC thought police. (Or are reflective of a trend towards such.) I don't think that is the case, but I do think there are some people somewhat concerned about that. Things like that have to be balanced with sensitivity in the language as it would be read by someone who is suffering harassment (e.g. not writing as if their reports are fake) but perhaps the "busy ombudspersonages => major problem of some sort => revisit this scheme" chain is actually quite ok in that respect. S.