doc: cover moderation of IRC, mail, and slack channels

[jasnell]

the moderation policy currently does not explicitly cover officially supported communications channels such as IRC, Slack, Email or Conference Calls. This is a first pass at covering such channels.

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[Fishrock123]

The existing moderation policy does not work well for IRC for the various reasons which I have previously stated in nodejs/inclusivity#138

[jasnell]

As I said, this is a first pass. Feel free to suggest additional edits that would improve the applicability for IRC.

[Fishrock123]

Fwiw attempting to enforce this policy on irc would be extremely impractical and I refuse to do it for #node-dev.

[jasnell]

@Fishrock123: Do you have specific recommendations on how the moderation policy can be improved to adequately cover IRC (in your opinion). Specific recommendations would be far more useful than a refusal to enforce a policy that we both agree is currently inadequate.

[Fishrock123]

An irc specific policy that includes the following (and other things I am probably forgetting):

• Who OPs are
  • proper OP permissions on freenode
• How to time people out (properly, including a history message)
  • Temporary timeouts
• when to just kick people
• irc specific offences
  • such as people joining/leaving rapidly
  • excessive use of channel notifications
• how to check the access logs

[jasnell]

I will work up some proposed language based on http://nodeirc.info/, http://blog.izs.me/post/30036893703/policy-on-trolling and https://gist.github.com/maxogden/8610086 to begin addressing the IRC specific requirements.

That said, many of the same requirements likely also apply to Slack channels, and other official communications channels may also have a number of channel specific requirements. I will see what I can do to begin addressing those as well.

[Fishrock123]

Untagging until progress is made

[jasnell]

+1 .. thank you, I'd meant to do so but forgot. Appreciate it.

[jasnell]

Closing this in favor of the ongoing community work group direction.