I don’t think there were suggestions, really. From what the post actually said, “Organizations handle these conflicts in a range of ways… On the more specific question of what norms to have, I don’t know.”
But in defense of rules, I think it’s fine to make rules to deal with the normal cases, and then you tell people you expect them to use their judgement otherwise. Because clearly power differentials are more complex than whether someone has an established place, or is older, or is more senior in an organization. For example, when I was working for 1DaySooner, I was technically junior to a number of people who worked there, but I still had much more community influence than they did. I’ve also been in plenty of situations where people significantly younger than me were in more senior roles. Rules that try to capture all the complexity would be stupid, but so would having no rules at all.
the current suggestions (in top level posts) do feel more like ‘meddling’ than like reasonable norms
I don’t think there were suggestions, really. From what the post actually said …
I don’t think there were suggestions, really. From what the post actually said, “Organizations handle these conflicts in a range of ways… On the more specific question of what norms to have, I don’t know.”
But in defense of rules, I think it’s fine to make rules to deal with the normal cases, and then you tell people you expect them to use their judgement otherwise. Because clearly power differentials are more complex than whether someone has an established place, or is older, or is more senior in an organization. For example, when I was working for 1DaySooner, I was technically junior to a number of people who worked there, but I still had much more community influence than they did. I’ve also been in plenty of situations where people significantly younger than me were in more senior roles. Rules that try to capture all the complexity would be stupid, but so would having no rules at all.
I read Guy as talking about the top level posts Consider not sleeping around within the community and EA’s weirdness makes it unusually susceptible to bad behavior but, yes, if he’s talking about me I haven’t actually gotten far enough to figure out what sort of suggestions I might make.