Don’t use Swapcard (or other clearly professional infrastructure) to try to get dates / flirt.
Whilst I agree this should be a norm, and it is often actually written in participant guides as a norm, it’s increasingly clear to me this is not a norm—and it’s definitely not one that’s been picked up by the 95% percentile
I’d like to clarify that “using the event app to request meetings for romantic or sexual reasons” is clearly listed as one of the behaviors that “don’t belong at EA Global or related events” in our Code of Conduct (also found on our FAQ and registration form). Agreeing to this is a condition of attending, we take violations seriously, and we are working with the community health team to investigate this incident.
If people are having a hard time understanding or following that rule, I wonder if establishing a bright-line collorary would help, something like: In addition, if you use the event app to obtain a meeting with someone, you may not—at any time between the day before the event starts and the second day after the event ends—suggest or propose a romantic or sexual encounter with that person.
The rationalization I could see people trying to use on the current wording is that it focuses on conscious intent when using the event app. They could tell themselves (or maybe even believe?) that they did not ask for the meeting for romantic/sexual reasons.
Yeah, we should probably do something about that. My guess is that Community Health is on this (EDIT: they are on this, sorry I missed that message!)
I imagine there’s a few things CH could do if they learn the identity of the offender—my guess is an appropriate reaction would be a warning or maybe just ban them from the next EAG, followed by permanently banning from EAG for repeated offending.
Surely directly violating the code of conduct you explicitly agreed to is an auto-ban for the next conference? I’d reserve warnings for things that are negative behaviour but not explicitly prohibited
Whilst I agree this should be a norm, and it is often actually written in participant guides as a norm, it’s increasingly clear to me this is not a norm—and it’s definitely not one that’s been picked up by the 95% percentile
So unfortunately there’s a lot of work to do here
I’d like to clarify that “using the event app to request meetings for romantic or sexual reasons” is clearly listed as one of the behaviors that “don’t belong at EA Global or related events” in our Code of Conduct (also found on our FAQ and registration form). Agreeing to this is a condition of attending, we take violations seriously, and we are working with the community health team to investigate this incident.
If people are having a hard time understanding or following that rule, I wonder if establishing a bright-line collorary would help, something like: In addition, if you use the event app to obtain a meeting with someone, you may not—at any time between the day before the event starts and the second day after the event ends—suggest or propose a romantic or sexual encounter with that person.
The rationalization I could see people trying to use on the current wording is that it focuses on conscious intent when using the event app. They could tell themselves (or maybe even believe?) that they did not ask for the meeting for romantic/sexual reasons.
Yeah, we should probably do something about that. My guess is that Community Health is on this (EDIT: they are on this, sorry I missed that message!)
I imagine there’s a few things CH could do if they learn the identity of the offender—my guess is an appropriate reaction would be a warning or maybe just ban them from the next EAG, followed by permanently banning from EAG for repeated offending.
Surely directly violating the code of conduct you explicitly agreed to is an auto-ban for the next conference? I’d reserve warnings for things that are negative behaviour but not explicitly prohibited
And that should be stated upfront to more effectively deter violations.
Yeah I’m just going to retract my comment entirely because it looks like I misunderstood the situation.