Re: [go-nuts] Re: A message from the CoC committee

2021-03-25 Thread 'Axel Wagner' via golang-nuts
Comparisons to legal systems are misguided. Legal systems are a) almost impossible to escape (barring an international move), b) regulate all aspects of your lives and c) wield the almost unlimited monopoly of violence by the state against its citizens. Thus, they have an easily justified very

Re: [go-nuts] Re: A message from the CoC committee

2021-03-25 Thread Jesper Louis Andersen
On Wed, Mar 24, 2021 at 8:18 PM ben...@gmail.com wrote: > I'm comparing to various legal systems, in which there is almost always > the possibility of appeal, even for heinous crimes. > It's somewhat the other way around. The worse the crime, the more argument for an appeal process because you

Re: [go-nuts] Re: A message from the CoC committee

2021-03-24 Thread 'Thomas Bushnell BSG' via golang-nuts
On Wed, Mar 24, 2021 at 3:18 PM ben...@gmail.com wrote: > I'm comparing to various legal systems, in which there is almost always > the possibility of appeal, even for heinous crimes. > Not forever; and especially not in cases of abuse of process. For example, the United States Supreme Court

Re: [go-nuts] Re: A message from the CoC committee

2021-03-24 Thread Ben Hoyt
Fair response - pragmatic and helpful. Thanks, Ian. -Ben On Thu, Mar 25, 2021 at 8:34 AM Ian Lance Taylor wrote: > On Wed, Mar 24, 2021 at 12:19 PM ben...@gmail.com > wrote: > > > > > permanent bans were given to multiple individuals, with no possibility > for appeal > > > > I don't disagree

Re: [go-nuts] Re: A message from the CoC committee

2021-03-24 Thread Ian Lance Taylor
On Wed, Mar 24, 2021 at 12:19 PM ben...@gmail.com wrote: > > > permanent bans were given to multiple individuals, with no possibility for > > appeal > > I don't disagree with the bans, but this part -- the "no possibility for > appeal" seems very ... totalitarian. What if a mistake was made?

[go-nuts] Re: A message from the CoC committee

2021-03-24 Thread ben...@gmail.com
> permanent bans were given to multiple individuals, with no possibility for appeal I don't disagree with the bans, but this part -- the "no possibility for appeal" seems very ... totalitarian. What if a mistake was made? (Again, not saying it was here, but in general, to err is human.) I'm

[go-nuts] Re: A message from the CoC committee

2021-03-23 Thread Anthony Martin
can...@google.com once said: > After review, permanent bans were given to multiple individuals, with no > possibility for appeal. Further corrective actions like temporary bans and > final warnings are being deliberated, pending further investigation. Where is the moderation log? Anthony --