Oct. 13, 2020
11:32 a.m.
On Tue, Oct 13, 2020 at 11:17:33AM +0100, Steve Holden wrote:
Full marks to the SC for transparency. That's a healthy sign that the community acknowledges its disciplinary processes must also be open to scrutiny, and rather better than dealing with matters in a Star Council.
The SC didn't say anything until Antoine posted an open letter from Stefan to the list.
There is tension between the requirements of openness and privacy, and I don't have a good answer for where the balance should be. But it seems to me that giving "full marks for transparency" for a decision made behind closed doors that we only found about about because one of the parties was able to announce their ban via a third party is a remarkably soft grade.
Steve