Tom Lane wrote:
> In my admittedly-limited experience with dealing with such problems,
> it's a lot easier to achieve positive results if you can discuss
> issues in private, before people's positions harden.
>
> In short, I wouldn't characterize that complainant as "a troll" for
> the substance of her complaint, but maybe so for the way in which
> she went about making it. If we're to have a CoC, I'd really like
> it (and any associated enforcement mechanism) to be designed to
> discourage this sort of let's-begin-with-public-attacks approach to
> problem resolution. How we get to that exactly, I don't know.
There's a time-tested idea in Mt 18, 15-17:
If your brother or sister sins, go and point out their fault, just
between the two of you. If they listen to you, you have won them over.
But if they will not listen, take one or two others along, so that
'every matter may be established by the testimony of two or three witnesses.'
If they still refuse to listen, tell it to the church; and if they refuse
to listen even to the church, treat them as you would a pagan or a tax collector.
"Take one or two others along" could be a CC.
Yours,
Laurenz Albe
