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This may have been covered before (although if so I can't find anything on it...), but if Mods can only vote on a ban in their own forum, how might the board work out exactly which set of Mods should vote on a given ban? It's conceivable that a possible banning offence (say an ambiguous remark that might be read as being racist) might occur in Creation, and a thread proposing a ban on the grounds of this offence is then begun in Policy, in which the potential ban-ee defends the original offence perpetrated in Creation. This begs a few questions:
1) Should it be Creation or Policy Mods who vote on the ban? On the one hand, you might argue that it should be the Creation Mods, given that it's 'their' welcome mat that was soiled. However, to defend a banning offence committed elsewhere in Policy is to soil that forum's welcome mat, too, and perhaps with more splattage (to post an ambiguous remark in Creation and then confirm in Policy that, yes, it was intended to be racist, and that no, you don't care, is possibly worse than posting the original ambiguous remark).
2) If both Creation and Policy Mods feel that it is they that should vote on the ban, how is this to be resolved? Should the Mods of the forum in which the original offence was perpetrated take precendence, or should there be two votes, by two different (although at times overlapping) sets of mods? What to do in the event of one set of Mods voting for a ban, and the other not? Are both sets of votes to be considered equal?
3) If a poster has splatted across numerous forums, and the proposed ban is of the last-straw kind rather than the single-issue kind, things become even more complicated. Say the potential ban-ee has done X in Games, Y in the Gathering, and on reflection has also done Z in the Lab, do the Mods of all of those forums pitch in with a vote?
4) Some individuals on Barbelith mod in more than one forum. In the event of (for e.g.) Creation Mods and Policy Mods both voting on a ban, should a given individual only participate in one ballot, even though they mod in both forums?
5) It's conceivable that two separate ballots by the Mods of two separate forums might each involve the same 4-5 people (for e.g. a Creation ballot being voted on by A,B,C & D, and a Policy ballot also being voted on by A,B,C & D). Should this mean that the same set of 4 individuals cannot work as Mods in more than one forum to avoid this situation?
6) In the event of an individual Mod being involved in two parallel ballots on the same potential ban-ee, should they vote only on the basis of the offence caused in a specific forum, and return, quite possibly, a 'yes' in one ballot, and a 'no' in the other? |
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