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Drafting the Codidact Arbitration & Review Panel [duplicate]

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Closed as outdated or superseded by ArtOfCode‭ on Nov 21, 2020 at 21:10

This question has been superseded or is outdated. For more up-to-date information, see the linked post. See: Second Iteration of Drafting the Codidact Arbitration & Review Panel

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Since Codidact was founded, we have had one rule leading our path every step of the way. It's the rule that community comes first. That the Codidact "staff" shouldn’t overrule the community, but could be overruled by it.

In any community, acts of moderation should be rare. And even rarer is the need to review these decisions. However, there will inevitably be cases where certain situations need to be reviewed:

  1. Users think that an action (for example, a suspension) is wrong or even malicious.
  2. A moderator might misbehave and violate our light Code of Conduct or our Terms of Service.

I want to emphasize that there have been no such cases yet, and there will likely (and hopefully) not be for months, if not years. But we can be sure that there will be one at some point in the future. When this situation does arrive, it's better to have an existing process that can be followed to guarantee the best resolution of the conflict rather than coming up with a brand new process on the spot.

It should be clear that such a process shouldn't involve "us" (the Codidact team), but rather "you" (the community). Hence, at some point, it was decided on the old forum that we'd eventually have some kind of review panel, which would be responsible for these cases.

While there will probably be no "panel elections" for the time being, because the panel members would still be a large percentage of our community members (which wouldn't exactly make sense at this stage), we have made a start on the Panel review process. It is based on these three principles:

  1. The Panel decisions are binding to moderators and the Codidact team1.
  2. Every party should be heard before any decision is made.
  3. The Panel shall be independent and impartial.

This process is currently only a draft. We'd like your feedback, and welcome any suggestions for changes to it. Please leave them in answers to this question.

You can find our current draft here.

  1. For obvious reasons, there are some legal limits. However, in these cases, we have tried to strike a balance between legal and community interests. For example, in such a case, the Panel may decide to publish our reasons (with private information redacted). ↩

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ArtOfCode‭ wrote almost 4 years ago
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Clarification: the draft mentions the Codidact board in a few places, because this is how we think it should work. We're not set up as a legal organisation yet (though we're looking into it), so that doesn't apply currently, but by the time we're ready to elect the first Panel, that shouldn't be a problem any more.

Zerotime‭ wrote almost 4 years ago
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Will these guidelines be introduced after or before the creation of a legal entity? If after creation of a legal entity, how are the terms "Codidact team", "community board", and "Codidact board" defined? I find it difficult to assess this document with my little knowledge about these terms but I can't seem to find useful information about it here on Meta or the help center. Right now, it feels like thinking about a process without knowing relevant stakeholders (and it doesn't work like that).

luap42‭ wrote almost 4 years ago
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@Zerotime we'll create a legal entity at some point. It will have some kind of "board of trustees" (=Codidact board), which should contain members from the community (=comunity board positions (as in board positions for/by the community)). The board members will appoint some volunteers, which will form the Codidact team, which will be responsible for the administrative day-to-day operations (ex. development). But it's not all clear-cut defined, yet.

DonielF‭ wrote almost 4 years ago
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Is there a process in place if someone wants to appeal the Panel's decision?

luap42‭ wrote almost 4 years ago
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@DonielF there isn't and none is planned currently. For it's actually quite common, that decisions of "appeal gremiums" (in real world: often courts) can not be appealed themself.