Re: [ga-abuse] Pending Suspension

["Patrick Corliss" <patrick@quad.net.au>]

Hi Roberto

> ... so if I offend Kristy and Alexander in the same message to the GA, I
can
> get away with it because there are no monitors to process the complaint.

I don't quite agree.  A monitor should not process a complaint when he or
she:

(a)    made the complaint, or
(b)    was the person complained about.

In the example given, you broke the list rules (by insulting Kristy and
Alexander) but who made the complaint?  You would need both Kristy AND
Alexander to be offended enough to complain about the same post.

However, nobody said anything about list monitors recusing themselves
because they are adjudicating a complaint made against Roberto by, say, WXW,
in relation to insults for which one or other of the list monitors were the
subject.

> I think that self-recusation from judging a complaint can be stated as
good
> practice, but cannot be stated as a rule.
> And in fact I don't think it has ever spelled out as a rule.

It was not spelled out as a formal rule as it would be on the website (which
it isn't).

However, I said it when I was first appointed as a list monitor.  It
complies with a general rule of law going back to the days of the Roman
Empire that nobody should be a judge in their own case.

In modern parlance, a "conflict of interest".

> Roberto

Best regards
Patrick