We are looking for nominations (can be self-nominations) to the Conduct Committee. Because Beth B is now the Ombuds, the Conduct Committee finds itself with only 4 members, and we would like to replenish to 5. Information about the nomination and selection cycle, as well as about the Committee, is below.
The Conduct Committee is part of what makes RFR what it is. Members of the Conduct Committee are required to regularly handle sensitive personal matters with discretion, thoughtfulness, and fairness, while remaining unbiased by personal connections with the parties involved. The importance of the Conduct Committee member role is the reason for the complex set of nomination and selection guidelines below. Thank you in advance for reading.
Our Conduct Committee is a group of community members that answers to the Board. The current Conduct Committee is: Joy Perkinson (me, Chair), Jessy McQuaw, Ken Clary, and Mal Sillars. We can be reached at rfr-conduct@googlegroups.com. The role of the Conduct Committee is to investigate conduct complaints, determine whether the Code of Conduct has been violated, determine/suggest appropriate disciplinary actions for any violations of the Code. At times we help find resolutions to situations even if we determine the Code has not been explicitly violated. There is nuance and complexity in several of the cases the Conduct Committee sees, and candidates should approach the position knowing that thoughtful investigation and discussion will be required in the role.
The Conduct Committee keeps a confidential log of incidents, including time of complaint/case opening and date resolved. We work to keep resolution time as low as possible. Please be aware that if you are a member of the Committee, you will be expected to support timely resolution of cases.
The procedure for adding a Conduct Committee member is as follows:
Committee members are added when the Committee has fewer than 5 members, or when either the Committee or the Board feels that more should be added, as determined by a majority vote of either.
New members are nominated by form with 5 people’s signatures (you cannot sign your own form). You can self-nominate or nominate someone else with their consent. This continues for a set period of time (“nomination phase”).
Candidates are interviewed by the existing Conduct Committee.
Names of candidates are published to the community, along with a request that if anyone knows of a reason why they should not be on the Committee, please confidentially inform the Committee. This is open for a set period of time (“comment phase”). This can happen in parallel with interviews; if anything comes up during comments that requires further questions, a second mini-interview or follow-up email could occur. Note that NOT all comments trigger correspondence with the candidate, and neither will the comments be blindly trusted without followup if there seems to be some reason to doubt them. All comments will be taken in good faith but with context. Also, every effort will be made to keep the person who made the comment anonymous.
Candidates are selected by the Conduct Committee and their names are put to the Board for approval by a majority vote of the board. Effort will be made to ensure a good distribution of the Committee members from across the player base and staff base of the games.
The Conduct Committee chair is selected from among Conduct Committee members, by the the Committee.
Note that there are no restrictions about people being on the Board as well as the Conduct Committee.
Specific details about the current nomination and selection cycle are as follows:
The nomination phase is open now. It will continue until November 12; this cycle is long because of the timing of Entanglement's Fall events. I would like to give ENT community members a full month after the completion of their next event to get nominations submitted.
The nomination “form” will be email. Send an email to rfr-conduct@googlegroups.com and CC all 5 people who are signing the form as well as the candidate themself. Then, each of the people who did not send the original email will be required to reply-all stating that they do indeed endorse that candidate (or consent to the nomination, in the case of the candidate themself).
The comment phase will run November 13-December 5. At the beginning of this phase, the list of candidates will be published as described above.
New Committee members will be determined after December 5, after the Conduct Committee completes their interviews, any necessary investigations, and deliberation. They will the submit their suggested list of new members to the Board, for Board approval with majority vote, which will make the new members of the Committee official.
Thanks in advance for your consideration and your nominations!
Hi RFR community!
We are looking for nominations (can be self-nominations) to the Conduct Committee. Because Beth B is now the Ombuds, the Conduct Committee finds itself with only 4 members, and we would like to replenish to 5. Information about the nomination and selection cycle, as well as about the Committee, is below.
The Conduct Committee is part of what makes RFR what it is. Members of the Conduct Committee are required to regularly handle sensitive personal matters with discretion, thoughtfulness, and fairness, while remaining unbiased by personal connections with the parties involved. The importance of the Conduct Committee member role is the reason for the complex set of nomination and selection guidelines below. Thank you in advance for reading.
Our Conduct Committee is a group of community members that answers to the Board. The current Conduct Committee is: Joy Perkinson (me, Chair), Jessy McQuaw, Ken Clary, and Mal Sillars. We can be reached at rfr-conduct@googlegroups.com. The role of the Conduct Committee is to investigate conduct complaints, determine whether the Code of Conduct has been violated, determine/suggest appropriate disciplinary actions for any violations of the Code. At times we help find resolutions to situations even if we determine the Code has not been explicitly violated. There is nuance and complexity in several of the cases the Conduct Committee sees, and candidates should approach the position knowing that thoughtful investigation and discussion will be required in the role.
The Conduct Committee keeps a confidential log of incidents, including time of complaint/case opening and date resolved. We work to keep resolution time as low as possible. Please be aware that if you are a member of the Committee, you will be expected to support timely resolution of cases.
The procedure for adding a Conduct Committee member is as follows:
Specific details about the current nomination and selection cycle are as follows:
The nomination phase is open now. It will continue until November 12; this cycle is long because of the timing of Entanglement's Fall events. I would like to give ENT community members a full month after the completion of their next event to get nominations submitted.
The nomination “form” will be email. Send an email to rfr-conduct@googlegroups.com and CC all 5 people who are signing the form as well as the candidate themself. Then, each of the people who did not send the original email will be required to reply-all stating that they do indeed endorse that candidate (or consent to the nomination, in the case of the candidate themself).
The comment phase will run November 13-December 5. At the beginning of this phase, the list of candidates will be published as described above.
New Committee members will be determined after December 5, after the Conduct Committee completes their interviews, any necessary investigations, and deliberation. They will the submit their suggested list of new members to the Board, for Board approval with majority vote, which will make the new members of the Committee official.
Thanks in advance for your consideration and your nominations!
Joy Perkinson
Chairwoman, Conduct Committee