( ad hoc civ-soc issue this morning )
I would create and enforce the following guidelines :
1.
group members should not make claims of CRIMINAL / potentially criminal activity by any member of the public, without offering accountability
- accountability may take the form of :
(a) citation in a publication of repute ( go figure haha, of course it's a slippery slope between National Newspaper and ABC's blog of 100 readers )
(b) police report NUMBER, DATE, and STATION ( so that anyone can make an inquiry with the station about potentially threatening individuals without undue gossiping ); or other mention / case ID number under any other law enforcement agency; not sure if it is sufficient to name an arbitrary NGO, but sure a case ID under a registered NGO would be better than nothing
(c) willing to respond further, to inquiry about the claim, whether it is in the group, or via other investigative channels such as : NGOs, law enforcement agencies, informal civil society initiatives ( though a bunch of volunteer investigators is also a cause for concern )
- lack of accountability may take the form of :
(c) saying someone did something, but "won't respond to further inquiry about the legitimacy of the claim"
(d) "will not accept assistance to lodge a police report if a police report has not already been lodged" / "will not produce evidence of the existence of a police report / other entity case ID"
2.
group members should not make claims of NON-CRIMINAL disagreeable activity by any member of the public, unless they are also willing to respond further, to inquiry about the claim, whether it is in the group, or via other investigative channels
example : if the claim is queried by another group member, then the claimant should be able to structure a response which provides more information; and if no further information is forth-coming, the guideline should be that the claim must be reviewed by admins via "report to admin : other" ( the reporting mechanism has no annotations, so admins may require a comment to accompany such reports of damaging claims of questionable veracity )
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