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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [VOTE] Contributor Guidelines, and Updates to Code of
 Conduct progress
From: rowan.collins@gmail.com (Rowan Collins)

Lester Caine wrote on 09/02/2016 15:31:
> In the context of policing CoC 'infringements' then a threat of some
> action should be enough to defuse the situation.

Agreed.


> There is no need to
> 'settle out of court', but my point was more one of the feeling these
> days that "out of court settlement" is little to do with what is right
> and more to do with what costs less without actually solving the
> problem. The aim of any 'stick' should be to get at the truth rather
> than pressure one party to settle for the others opinion ...

A fair point. If the process is perceived as biased, or intimidating for 
one side or the other, it would have a chilling effect rather than a 
calming one. In my mind, that makes defining due process even more 
important, to reassure everyone that the intimidation is not intended.

Regards,
-- 
Rowan Collins
[IMSoP]