Thanks all for your feedback!
First of all, I want to highlight again what Matimio mentioned about the importance of having something like this codified and agreed upon by the community, as the Discord Rules themselves were not developed through a governance proposal.
While we’re still gathering information and feedback to move forward with the Binding Governance Proposal and the final version of the document if this Draft Proposal passes, below you’ll find answers to some of your questions:
- Low tier offenses: based on comments and feedback, we’ve agreed that toxic behavior from the lower tier should have consequences if repeated, so we’ll work on something to address that.
- Cool downs: the first point brings us to the second, since it seems unfair for someone that has done something wrong a long time ago, to have to pay the consequences for it in a different context. With that said, each tier could have its own reasonable cool down time (enough to dissuade, enough to be fair).
- “Trolling” & “Harassment”: not an easy topic, but we’ll try to get some concrete examples to use as guidelines.
- Banning times for each tier: there are specific behaviors that justify an immediate perma-ban, but for others we could consider other periods of time (e.g. 1 year), depending on the broken rule.
- Private messaging and social media: they’re are not explicited because we didn’t find a solution for that so far. Some people could say that’s outside the scope, some people would say the opposite. Monitoring social media is definitely something that we won’t do.
- Enforcement can’t be overruled by the DAO: It’s explicit at the bottom of the document “In situations where a moderator is absent or the community deems a timeout necessary, a community enforcement mechanism ‘Modinator’ may be used. However, it is important to note that Modinator actions cannot supersede the decisions made by a moderator to time-out or ban a user due to inappropriate behavior.”