Voting Cycle #18 - Summary of Enforcement Decisions
Hello Optimists,
As per the Code of Conduct Council charter, the Code of Conduct Council (CoCC) must publish a report of summary of enforcement actions during each voting cycle’s review period. This report in turn “will be added to the Voting Roundup and optimistically approved. In this context, optimistic approval means the Council’s decisions are assumed to be approved unless the Token House explicitly vetoes an enforcement action.”
So, taking this charter structure on board, this Forum Thread will act as the formal Report to summarize the enforcement actions of Voting Cycle #18, and begin a conversation with any interested members in the community here.
INFORMATION ON THIS CYCLE’S DELIBERATIONS:
There were no new Code of Conduct Violation Reports since the last reporting period until the end of Voting Cycle #18 Review Period.
Thus the CoCC was not tasked with assessing, deliberating, and deciding on any reports during this period.
GENERAL UPDATES:
While there were no reports and formal decisions made during this period, the following updates can offer the community insight into the activities of the Code of Conduct Council…
- Following on from last cycle’s decisions, communication was started with applicable affected parties to attempt a mediation process where desired.
- Following on from last cycle’s decisions, communication was made with admin users to enforce any applicable suspensions.
- Following on from last cycle’s decisions and corresponding community feedback, the CoCC has discussed introducing an appeal or ‘Reconsideration’ mechanism into the CoCC procedures when earlier decisions could be viewed as sub-optimal.
- Following on from last cycle’s decisions and corresponding community feedback, the CoCC has discussed introducing an ‘Escalation’ process where a resolution and consensus by the CoCC process appear unattainable, and cases (after initially being filtered by the CoCC structure) can be escalated to the Token House for discussion and decision making.
- Regular Office Hours were arranged and our first Office Hours session was held.
- Research and consultation was conducted into Attestations & EAS Contracts to see whether these applications can be experimented within CoCC processes in future Seasons.
- Representatives of the Code of Conduct Council attended community calls and other meetings within the Governance Calendar, to introduce the CoCC.
- Dedicated locations for CoCC business were added to Discord and the Discourse forum, and individual CoCC members remained active on these platforms.
- Regular internal meetings were held by the CoCC to debate issues linked to earlier cycles and/or predicted issues of later cycles.
- While striving for independence and decentralization, the CoCC remained in regular contact with the Optimism Foundation to align & pace CoCC activities with the rest of the Collective.
- Operational, administrative and communication systems continued to be added, refined or repaired to get a new Council off the ground and working smoothly.
NOTES FOR THE COMMUNITY:
This report has been published more than 24 hours late (after the end of Voting Cycle #18 Review Period) due to a misunderstanding surrounding the requirements of this report when no new cases & decisions were introduced in this cycle and if there had been a shift of dates in the governance calendar. We acknowledge this delay is a failure in our systems, and we apologise to the community for not adhering to this deadline and any confusion or opaqueness this has caused. Our next formal report of enforcement decisions will be delivered by the end of the next, fixed review period, irrespective of case numbers.
And again, as stated in the last published report, the implementation of the Council is an ongoing experiment, each of us is committed to making every effort to modify and improve as deemed necessary. We will accept any critique or criticism of our process thus far and will work to amend our process to reflect our learnings.
Thank you for your time,
Members of the Code of Conduct Council