Moderation and Issue Management within WG

[zkat]

We've been seeing a lot of issues with moderation come up recently, and it's worth discussing some specifics, and strategies for managing some of them. A list off the top of my head that I would at least like to bring up:

• Managing brigades and hostile actors
• Preventing multiple directed responses to individuals? ("dogpiling")
• Other strategies for reducing overall temperature of discussions
• Scope of Issue and PR usage in nodejs/inclusivity -- how much discussion should happen there vs WG meetings?

[Fishrock123]

Related to nodejs/TSC#16

[nebrius]

I'm going to do some research into banning at the repo, not org, level and I'll report my findings here.

[nebrius]

#57 has been filed to help address some of these issues

[nebrius]

So here's the results of the banning research: it's currently not possible to block at the repository level, only at the org level. Further, only org owners can block. They noted the request for maintainers to be able to block at the repository level for future conversations.

[nebrius]

Results of the investigation: there is not currently a way to ban at the repo level, and it's not possible for someone other than an owner to ban people at the org level. sad face

[ghost]

now that nodejs/TSC#16 has landed, the question if we should adopt the moderation policy or employ our own one is coming up. thoughts?

[zkat]

These things were discussed in the 2015-11-14 WG meeting but I want to make sure we have issues set up for the concrete things we're planning on doing for each item before this is marked as closed.

[jasnell]

@nebrius ... the team at GitHub is very open to receiving feature requests. It might be worthwhile sending in a feature request asking that users with admin rights to an org repository be given the ability to block at the individual repository level. You can use the form here to submit feature requests... just be sure to include some contextual detail as to why the feature would be helpful and how you envision it working.

[nebrius]

thanks @jasnell! Feature request submitted :)

[nebrius]

I filed #132 to address moderation on a broader scale. Do we think that program address the issues listed here as well? Or should we leave this issue open?

[nebrius]

Closing in favor of #132, feel free to reopen if need be