We resign, effective immediately, in protest of the Steering Committee’s ongoing pattern of attempting to interfere with moderation team operation, membership and specific moderation decisions. This is not a statement we enjoy making, and we apologize to the community for leaving right before an election that is bound to be contentious, and likely now more so. Unfortunately, the Constitution does not provide a meaningful recourse to SC overreach, and we cannot in good faith continue operating u...
That’s not good. After the latest NixCon I thought the community and the governance structure were relatively balanced and mostly in agreement. It seems I was mistaken…
I kinda like most people both in the SC and the moderation team, it’s sad to see them disagree to this extent. I guess the “political appointment” was a right-wing one? I think the mod team were doing some good work keeping the discussion LGBT-friendly and not allowing most hateful views to be expressed, which apparently counts as left-wing nowadays.
Kind of hard to tell without seeing the actual mod decisions. But usually these things are super opaque and the official discussions are super vague so it pretty much is he said she said.
That said, this is definitely waaay better than the vaguebooking that the Rust mod team did when they quit.
That’s not good. After the latest NixCon I thought the community and the governance structure were relatively balanced and mostly in agreement. It seems I was mistaken…
I kinda like most people both in the SC and the moderation team, it’s sad to see them disagree to this extent. I guess the “political appointment” was a right-wing one? I think the mod team were doing some good work keeping the discussion LGBT-friendly and not allowing most hateful views to be expressed, which apparently counts as left-wing nowadays.
Kind of hard to tell without seeing the actual mod decisions. But usually these things are super opaque and the official discussions are super vague so it pretty much is he said she said.
That said, this is definitely waaay better than the vaguebooking that the Rust mod team did when they quit.