Two questions have been asked:
- Can we give a breach of the code a negative rating? //Obviously, some sort of an internal rating is being suggested, not the forum's rating system.
- Can we invite a frequent offender to leave?
These are drastic steps. Please think about how to implement these if carried.
I agree to the second but not the first. The CoC is in place for members who are willing to be a part of it and who are consciously able to follow the rules on
most occasions. I stress most because there might be times when the member might slip which I personally think is perfectly fine as long as he finds himself remorseful and is thus ready to accept his blunder and move on. What we clearly witnessed with Shantanu was that he repeatedly violated the code on multiple occasions and was at the end of the day, the least remorseful of his actions even after many of the members repeatedly on a number of occasions pointed out his transgressions. Seeing that, it was clear that he was the least interested in having anything to do with the CoC. Which leads us to the obvious question: Who should be a part of the CoC? Of course, only those who are
willing to abide by some of the prerogatives enshrined in it. There's no point for a person being part of this if he shows the least willingness to abide by it. Then that will basically some sort of a feign.
I don't think we'll need any kind of a point system. Instead, we can simply tag those posts that we usually do over here and over a period of time if we start noticing some sort of a pattern (repeated offender/repeated offensive words), we can give some sort of a gentle reminder/nudge, something like 'hey, you've had repeated infringements in the past few days and from now, please think twice before you have your say'. And of course, even after this, the person doesn't heed, we'll have to remove him.
Even after the person is removed though, he should still be able to come back to be a part of this. But he should be taken in only based on his previous actions i.e: if has actually followed the Code in say, the past 15 days even while he was not part of it.
After the events that occurred today, I too felt a little contrite as what transpired was some sort of public shaming but he eventually brought it upon himself so we can't really do anything about it.
