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If ops are attacked, the channel is also hurt as much as if users were attacked. Thus I am also taking action if op is attacked.
Usually when I am op, it’s easy to take action when someone else or some user is attacked. When op is attacked and they take action, they are “unable to handle criticism” or “abusing ops” or anything like that here.
From now, I will try to unlearn from that and be a better op at least on channels that have clear (written or not) rules as on channels that don’t, there possibly no way to know what the ops are even supposed to do other than look so scary that no one does anything bad.
There are only two issues that I see immediately now that I am typing this:
- What is an attack?
- What if it’s not an attack and op makes a mistake?
The second is easy to answer, if there are multiple ops, the user affected by the mistake can discuss about it with other ops present and/or the other ops can revert whatever was done.
But there is still the question what is an attack?
Trying to analyze logs of the previous case this happened, it looks like attack is at least:
directly targeted to a person, not part of them, and not generally saying that some part of them makes or doesn’t make them X and neither it’s generally talking about that part and oneself own experiences of them.
- the not-parts still feel like attacks reading this, but other ops say that it’s assertiveness.
talking about privilege for living in X where things are better and that means that the attacked one cannot have any kinds of issues with anything including mental health
talking like the attacked one was attacking them
additions welcome
Attack seems to also be when the attacked one communicates being uncomfortable (which should be done clearly, but do they always remember that) or when third party tells the people to calm down, but other party still continues. I think the usual three warnings policy can be implemented here.
Further reading would be the two policies from freenode and I currently don’t feel like commenting them further as my opinions are known.