This post is the official manual for Karrot’s ‘review membership’ (x-conflict resolution) feature. It covers–
You can discuss this feature here: Conflict resolution with possibility to remove user from group
We hereby present how the ‘Membership review’ feature (previously called ‘conflict resolution’ ) works and can be used by members of groups on Karrot.
We list the main features, we provide a series of screenshots that describe in a pictorial way how the feature works. We have also created a detailed video tutorial that can help members of Karrot groups understand how the feature works and how they could make use of it.
Main features
Video tutorial
Screenshots
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participating in the public discussion
How Score Voting works
So far there are three proposals the members can vote on:
If ‘The user stays in the group’ wins, well, the user stays in the group and nothing changes.
If ‘The user gets removed from the group’ wins, the user is removed. They are not banned and they don’t lose their account on Karrot, which means that they could theoretically apply to join the group again immediately.
If ‘Extend the time to keep discussing’ wins, a second voting round starts and the whole process is repeated. The chat stays open and people can continue the discussion, but the voting starts over and everybody needs to cast a new vote if they wish to further participate in the decision making.
Please note that this is not a binary vote, which means that you can - and should! - express your resistance or support on every single possibility! With this voting system it is possible to express much more nuanced opinions than simply supporting one option and dismissing all others.
Maybe your opinion is that the person indeed is problematic but that kicking them out of the group is too drastic as well, still you want to have this issue decided sooner rather than later. This could be your vote:
Maybe your opinion is that the whole issue is based on a big misunderstanding and that removing anybody is just a shortcut and not actually solving anything. People should rather take the time to really try and work together productively. This could be your vote:
Maybe your opinion is that the person really is the cause of a lot of fuss, that there have been enough tries to talk to them and that it’s time for consequences to protect the group. This could be your vote:
After 7 days the results get evaluated and put into effect automatically.
Every option counts as a numeric value:
All votes are summed up per proposal and the total scores are compared. The proposal with the highest total score wins.
In case of a tie a second voting round is started, since the issue obviously couldn’t be resolved.
The number of members who cast a vote is displayed as well, which enables everyone to calculate mean scores if they wish to do so.
A vote can not be decided in two cases:
If one of the above happens the conflict resolution process ends without any decision and the user in question remains in the group.
The idea of the conflict resolution feature is that the whole group can decide what to do if there is a problem with a specific member. The voting should always be accompanied by an open discussion which helps the group’s members to make up their minds. To facilitate this decision making structure every member can change their vote as often as they wish while the voting is still ongoing. On top of that, a user can also undo their vote of they decide so in time.
So far there are three proposals the members can vote on:
If ‘The user stays in the group’ wins, well, the user stays in the group and nothing changes.
If ‘The user gets removed from the group’ wins, the user gets kicked out of the group. They are not banned and they don’t lose their account on Karrot, which means that they could theoretically apply to join the group again immediately.
If ‘Extend the time to keep discussing’ wins, a second voting round starts and the whole process is repeated. The chat stays open and people can continue the discussion, but the voting starts over and everybody needs to cast a new vote if they wish to further participate in the decision making.
Please note that this is not a binary vote, which means that you can - and should! - express your resistance or support on every single possibility! With this voting system it is possible to express much more nuanced opinions than simply supporting one option and dismissing all others.
Maybe your opinion is that the person indeed is problematic but that kicking them out of the group is too drastic as well, still you want to have this issue decided rather sooner than later. This could be your vote:
Maybe your opinion is that the whole issue is based on a big misunderstanding and that removing anybody is just a shortcut and not actually solving anything. People should rather take the time to really try and work together productively. This could be your vote:
Maybe your opinion is that the person really is the cause of a lot of fuss, that there have been enough tries to talk to them and that it’s time for consequences to protect the group. This could be your vote:
After 7 days the results get evaluated and put into effect automatically.
Every option counts as a numeric value:
All votes are summed up per proposal and the total scores are compared. The proposal with the highest total score wins.
In case of a tie a second voting round is started, since the issue obviously couldn’t be resolved.
The number of members who cast a vote is displayed as well, which enables everyone to calculate mean scores if they wish to do so.
A vote can not be decided in two cases:
If one of the above happens the conflict resolution process ends without any decision and the user in question remains in the group.
@Vasilis_Ntouros I noticed you changed the info here according to the update on the feature but forgot (or maybe not?) to change the title. So I did that and in case it was intentional that it should not be changed, sorry about that, we change it back. 
