Thanks for this post, it contains many good suggestions. I just wanted to second Larks about organisational overhead. Trivial inconveniences or issues can easily end up distracting from the most important tasks—ie. growing the group, helping people to have an impact.
Another risk is that calling offensive comments turns into censorship/language policing. Given the incredible subjectivity of “offensive”, this is a particularly thorny issue to solve. Sometimes groups can end up being incredibly unwelcoming to people with different political views in an effort to be more welcoming to others.
Thanks for this post, it contains many good suggestions. I just wanted to second Larks about organisational overhead. Trivial inconveniences or issues can easily end up distracting from the most important tasks—ie. growing the group, helping people to have an impact.
Another risk is that calling offensive comments turns into censorship/language policing. Given the incredible subjectivity of “offensive”, this is a particularly thorny issue to solve. Sometimes groups can end up being incredibly unwelcoming to people with different political views in an effort to be more welcoming to others.