This fiat involves the disciplinary review procedure for cases involved in the November 2020 Disciplinary Incident. The Site Charter specifies that only staff members who are considered "peers" may weigh in on the disciplinary threads of other staffers, and that furthermore, such threads are limited to at most 72 hours. This fiat will modify this so that disciplinary threads as part of this case are available to operational staff and higher to comment, and are open for one week.
Due to the notability of the November 2020 Disciplinary Incident case, the time it spanned, and the wide interest in its outcomes, normal disciplinary procedure will be too inhibitory. Limiting staff discussion to solely moderators and above or administrators and above will severely limit the ability for staff to form a collective consensus regarding the work of the November 2020 Discilinary Incident intestigation group, as the incident significantly affected the whole site and all of staff, not merely those who are peers or higher. Additionally, 72 hours is a very short period to gather consensus for such a high-profile case, and may prevent some staff who have important contributions from being able to add them.
This is believed to reflect the will of staff, as the November 2020 Disciplinary Incident has been of high interest to staff over the last two years, and there is a strong desire to fully analyze the case and determine a suitable set of changes for the site and staff.
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