I'd like to ask all you users out there for thoughts on the creation of a "Rights of WiserEarthlings" group (name subject to change).  First some background, the WiserEarth Editors group was created partly to invite distinguished WE users to have "Editor" status.

After having a discussion with Sheri in the Editors group on what privileges and rights they should receive, we realized that there hasnt really been a strong WE community discussion on the rights that ALL WiserEarth users should have.  Sheri requested that all users have the ability to view all deleted comments, but currently this is not a right of all users.  But shouldn't it be?

Without knowing the rights of all users, how do we determine the rights of the Editors?  Without knowing why Editors had certain rights above others, the discussion on giving new users "Editor" status has come to a standstill.

I imagine this will be a long, very complex but exciting discussion.  While we have our WiserEarth Principles, a discussion based around "rights" would be very different as it'd touch on not what we should do, but what we are entitled to, so it'd be important to make that discussion open to the users. 

How does everyone feel about creating a group to host this discussion on the rights of WiserEarthlings? Roger Eaton from the GA Dialog is willing to help us use the GA Dialog model to moderate/facilitate this process.

Please share your thoughts! If this is going to be a group on our "rights" it has to be one that includes a lot of participation.  I'll create the group within a few days after waiting for comments, group suggestions, etc. and if there are no objections.