[Foundation-l] Litigation costs

Sat Jan 12 19:49:51 UTC 2008

On Jan 12, 2008 2:25 PM, David Goodman <dgoodmanny at gmail.com> wrote:
> The responsibility is to use the powers correctly when you use them.

Right, I thought that after I wrote it.  Still fits most closely with
"licensure".  You get a driver's license and your responsibility is to
drive safely.  You get a ham radio license and your responsibility is
to follow those rules.  You get a concealed weapons permit and your
responsibility is to use weapons appropriately.  Do volunteer
[[special constable]]s generally have any assigned duties, or are they
free to use their powers however they see fit?  I'd guess  it's
probably the former.

Would "no obligations" be accurate?  Not sure how to say it, but the
point is you're not required to do anything additional.  As Andrew
said, "no admin is *obliged* to take any particular admin action".

> whether we should have a practice of requiring admins to do a quota of the
> janitorial work is another matter.

Another matter from what?  I thought that was exactly what we were
discussing: "Admin tasks are performed when and if an admin chooses to
do it. Admins are not robots and so cannot be mandated to do
something. There are policies of course that try to limit some
actions, but nothing that can force an action to be taken." Ignore the
part about robots, and change "force" to "obligate", and that's what I
was responding to.

> i personally have thought it appropriate to do so.

It'd almost surely be more efficient.  Think back to my comment about
handing out mops and telling people to "clean stuff".  That's
essentially what's happening now, right?

Wasn't the volunteer coordinator hired precisely to work on this
issue?  Any progress yet?  Am I misunderstanding the volunteer
coordinator's job?