His posting rights were restricted after several warnings from Rangers. Halplm continued to disrupt the Symposium forum in many threads with his arguing in a non-productive manner with sauronsfinger. The nature of this arguing created what we felt was a forum-wide disruption and prevented members from being able to participate in fruitful discussion in that forum.
After halplm's posting rights were restricted, he continued his disruptive behavior in the Business Room forum and Turf forum and in the current Charter discussion thread (which is reserved for members of the committee). After further warnings, his board-wide permissions were restricted to the Bike Racks forum.
Soon after this, halplm sent out a Private Message to all members with the highest post counts. This generated many complaints, so his Private Messaging capabilities were then limited.
After starting multiple threads in the Bike Racks forum, in response to threads in other forums that he didn't have access to, we restricted halplm's ability to start new topics.
There was no one action of halplm's that warranted any suspension of posting rights. It was the totality of the issue that forced the Rangers to act. Given the numerous PM's and complaints within threads in regards to halplm, the Rangers felt a serious action was required.
Initially, the Rangers felt a 2-week suspension of posting rights in the Symposium was warranted, but given his further disruptions to the board and his extensive history with board disruptions, the Rangers feel further action is needed.
As it stands now, halplm has not engaged in any actions that would qualify him for a banning under the current Charter. Our actions were taken in what we believed would best prevent him from disrupting Board77 and it's membership.
-Rebecca, Holbytla, and Riverthalos
Added by Riverthalos from the Notice to Convene a Hearing posted in the Bike Racks:
This is a Notice to convene a Hearing against halplm on the following charges:
He has neglected his responsibility to refrain from using PM capability to harass other members of the board.
He has infringed on everyone's right to be treated with courtesy and respect by all posters regardless of their status, and the responsibility to treat others likewise.
Edited again:
Apparently people want more specific charges. I thought I listed them well enough above and don't want to read the Charter any more or waste any more of my time. So, I'm going to steal Estel's charges (posted on page 4) and list them here:
1.
Article 9 wrote: Offenses that Merit a Penalty and Maximum Penalties a Jury May Impose
.........
• A temporary ban of specified duration can be imposed for persistent posting of objectionable content......
2.
Article 2
From Member Rights and Responsibilities - Note, this is NOT from the part that says no penalites can be enforced.
3.
Quote: 1: Rights and responsibilities enforceable by procedures and penalties outlined in the Charter
A. You have the right:
To address personal disputes in the Bike Racks forum, and in other forums to post free of disruptions caused by the personal disputes of others.
Article 2
Member Rights and Responsibilities - Note, this is NOT from the part that says no penalites can be enforced.
Quote: B. You have the Responsibility:
.....
To refrain from using PM capability to harrass other members of the board.
4.
From Article 5: Dispute Resolution in the Outside Forum
Quote: ¶1: The Bike Racks Forum
The Bike Racks Forum is a read and write forum available to all members. It is used for:
• resolving disputes between individual members when these disputes do not involve a violation of board rules;
• off-topic discussions that are derailing a thread but do not warrant a thread of their own;
• restricting posters who have provided invalid email addresses.
Below is a current list of jurors for this hearing:
Ara-anna
Angbasdil
ToshoftheWuffingas
Marco (Jude)
Cenedril_Gildinaur
Estel
laureanna
The Loremaster position will be filled by Lurker.