I’ve thought more about the need of protecting the identity of the moderated individual.
If we take a step back, likely not even the current git history backed process exposing Personally Identifiable Information may hold the test of applicable personal data protection laws.
I’m no expert on this subject, but I’d assume neively that I could request to the NixOS Foundations’s data protection officer to erase any entry with personal identifiable information not only from the repository, but also from the git history under penalty of sanctions.
Typically, in such cases, all Personally Identifiable Imformation (PII), such as the GH handle, would be anonymized in public and only a private mapping would be held by the mod team to the respective GH and Discourse handles.
This not only would ensure the NixOS Foundations’s compliance with aplicable laws beyond any doubt, but it also would remove the one obstacle that has been cited in this thread towards providing more context about a decision in the moderation log.
Moreover, I find it somehow important that, alongside the decision for a ban, also the voice of the accused is ritually given (some) space within the same record.
Kind regards to everyone who has read through this thread until here. I hope we can all agree that we can do better. 