Removing ZCAP members

[Dodger]

@aquietinvestor

Perhaps ZF should create a process to remove members for cause (e.g. by petition or vote)?

We recently published a blog post which describes a protocol for removing ZCAP members whose interests are not aligned with the Zcash community’s, or whose membership of ZCAP is otherwise inimical to its purpose.

As I wrote previously:

@Dodger

I agree that we should have a process for excluding individuals who don’t engage constructively, and I don’t believe that the Zcash Foundation should be the sole arbiter, as it opens us up to accusations of seeking to influence the ZCAP’s decisions by excluding or removing members who disagree with the Foundation.

By incorporating ECC’s advice into the process for removing ZCAP members, we can eliminate the risk of any bias on ZF’s part.

A summary of the protocol can be found here.

Under this protocol, we will be raising three names for discussion:

1. Justin Ehrenhofer (@sgp). Multiple members of the community have raised concerns about Justin’s membership of ZCAP, which dates back to its inception, when anyone could self-nominate.

2. James Joseph, who has been banned from the forums for multiple breaches of the code of conduct (including creating sockpuppet accounts), and from the Telegram community.

3. Lillian Gish, who was added to ZCAP by invitation from James Joseph. We have been in contact with this person via email to try to verify that they are not a sockpuppet identity. We may well withdraw this name if we are able to determine that they are a real person who warrants ZCAP membership. Update: See zecretary’s post below.