IRC Council, Appeal resolution

[Frode M. Døving]

At Monday 18 December 2006 07:17, you wrote:
> On 12/17/06, Dennis Kaarsemaker <dennis at kaarsemaker.net> wrote:
> > On zo, 2006-12-17 at 23:42 +0100, Jan Vancura wrote:
> >
> > > Recently, I've witnessed decisions by Ubuntu IRC operators that were
> > > only ambiguously agreed to. What i mean is that some people have
> > > voiced concerns over their fairness.
> >
> > The only time I saw that was yesterday when cody kept on whining. That
> > made both ompaul and me leave. So please cut it out if you still want an
> > IRC council at all.
> 
> Ok, this is not cool. Cody was not "whining". I have been having
> serious reservations about how quick we are to ban people and the
> response when they come to -ops to get themselves unbanned. Some of
> our behaviour towards them is rude, tbh. I also happen to know I am
> not the only person thinking this. Yes, IRC ops is a hard job, but we
> should not forget our essential humanity and reasoning behind Ubuntu.

I agree, some behavior is rude and often unnecessary.
I can not comment this specific issue but it's not the first.

- Frode