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RE: From ad hoc governance to better governance
It's not enough to replace ad hoc governance with written, constitutional, formal and transparent governance. If the community has a clear goal, a little bit of thought should be given to the actual mechanism that governs the community. How easy it will be to achieve the goal with a particular governance mechanism?
One of the goals that I personally like to promote is to encourage a healthy and positive community. By this I mean, set it up so that unhealthy and negative behaviour are mitigated against:
Recognising that's controversial :-)
Yeah, excluding toxic individuals is very important goal. That's why it's also very important to seriously think about the mechanism which is used for kicking out toxic people.
The mechanism might be too weak and not be able to help the community. Or it might be too strong and end up excluding many good individuals.
I'm in favor of trying different mechanisms in practice and watching if they work as intended. If not, then they must be adjusted before the toxicity spreads too widely.
Human nature is to treat any attack as toxic, valid or not. Not possible to eliminate toxicity, just like not possible to eliminate common cold. As much as want to attack toxics also have to improve our own resiliance to common cold, criticism, biased and blinkered thinking.