Grants talk:IdeaLab/Friendly space task force

Update/revision based on advice from people who have experience with this:

After a person is attacked online, a third party who steps in to help can further injure that person -- e.g. because it is another wave of events in which that person loses control over the situation and is redefined -- and therefore it would be good form to act only when that person agrees to accept intervention. Difficult! But this is a constraint such a task force might appropriately put on its own choice of when to act.
Task force members who intervened might themselves be criticized or attacked, sometimes by a person they have addressed or an ally of that person. This has been observed. Indeed it is often the case that the persistent one who is always online wins by intensity of presence. My thought about this is that the task force members must agree to monitor and assist one another, and they should ideally outnumber any online gang of critics or attackers. The point is not to fight but to have other parties available to review the situation and intervene and ask for good behavior carefully and well and --if needed --often. Further input is welcome!