official policy statements should be public

[jmtorres]

Official policy statements should be public and not transmitted via private message as if in an attempt to silence members. When official policy statements are made public I will respond publicly; until then, I will 1) not regard non-public policy as official and 2) just express my utter frustration and bewilderment that policy theoretically being shaped with feedback from the membership is being declared privately and categorically rather than posted publicly for response. I mean, gosh, if you're going to have secret rules, and you only notify people you think likely to break them, what happens if someone doesn't mention their activities where you notice and doesn't get a memo about the secret rule they're breaking?

ETA: Vividcon's policy on vid review bingo has been made public.

Comments

[jecook]

*offers chocolate*

Anything I can help with?

[jmtorres]

Doubtful. But oooh, chocolate.

[killabeez]

What? *is confused*

[jmtorres]

I am sure we will all be less confused when the official policy is posted publicly.

[sherrold]

Somehow I feel certain that someone on the other side of the Internet is cuurectly complaining about being called out publicly, instead of just being told quietly that something isn't okay.

[jmtorres]

Clearly people on various ends of the internet have commented via the medium each finds most appropriate to the discussion.

[echan]

Wait, vividcon did this?! Do they want more internet flaming?

[jmtorres]

I... think they were trying to avoid it by keeping it all private?