[abandoned] Censure of interchain foundation for abuse of codes of conduct

During proposal 69, Jacob gadakian from national validators was threatened with a code of conduct violation by Billy Rennekamp, an individual who is ultimately funded by the interchain foundation.

This code of conduct was never approved by governance, is unevenly enforced even in threat, and is harmful to the development of the cosmos hub.

More information on this topic can be found here:

https://forum.cosmos.network/t/icf-harming-gaia-competitiveness/6590/8

And here:

And here:

Vote yes to censure the interchain foundation for attempting to stop vigorous governance discussion and transparency.

Vote no you do not support such a censure.

Vote NoWithVeto to express a strong form of no, with the knowledge that exceeding 1/3 no with veto vote will cause the depositors to lose the deposit and the proposal to fail.

Vote abstain to signal no strong opinion in either direction and a willingness to comply with outcomes.

NB:

I meant to post a third proposal ā€“ one that suggests that we adopt the code of conduct from status.im, but I am unable to make a third new post in a single 24h period.

I donā€™t think censuring the ICF or any actors makes sense based on internally consistent logic. Instead we should focus on a new code of conduct, setting up a body capable of such an action with clear lines of accountability. Furthermore I think the discussion at this stage about the past should focus on people taking accountability of their own actions without demanding the same from others. Itā€™s a public forum. If people did wrong, the community will notices and this will undermine peoples social capital over time. When leaders accept responsibility for their actions their social capital grows over time. Letā€™s just focus on personal sovereign accountability and get the new CoC done together.

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We good. If we recognize that the contributors covered it as it is currently set up is completely unenforceable and likely overly broad, then we put ourselves in a good position to move forward.

For the record, as your screenshots confirm, I said ā€œYour public behaviour points to the fact that we need a code of conductā€. This was in regard to inviting you to a Cosmos core contributor discord and had nothing to do with the gaia repo or the gaia code of conduct. Iā€™m glad thereā€™s an effort to update the gaia code of conduct but please stop accusing me of something i did not do.

I disagree with you.

That was an audience of 174 of my industrial competitors and you chose to have a conversation in which you called me a distributor of FUD, and stated that my behavior online points to the need for a code of conduct. This occured:

  • During the debate on proposal 69
  • After Iā€™d spoken to you about the issues with the Interchain Foundationā€™s validators of choice, like this one:

I think your comments, especially in that light, were highly inappropriate.

Then thereā€™s this:

I realize that you donā€™t see it that way, that you figure that those were, as you said, ā€œdrive by pull requestsā€. Andā€¦ Thatā€™s the problem.

On the plus side, weā€™re speaking publicly. Thatā€™s a step forward.