Timeline for The new moderator agreement is now live for moderators to accept across the network
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| Jul 12, 2020 at 17:17 | comment | added | Please stop being evil | Regarding iii, what they could do and have done is illegally harass and defame you in real life, obviously. I wouldn't take iii as any real indication that they won't do that, though-- why would you expect them to follow these new policies when they didn't follow the old ones or even the bare minimum conduct required by law? | |
| Jul 9, 2020 at 20:20 | comment | added | jscs | Yeah, I'm definitely not getting my point across. I agree with everything you've said, @terdon. But "these precise 1,2,3,4 terrible things are now off limits" is no guarantee for anything else. To quote George's answer "The things we write down are the things we care about". This list, to me, indicates care about not repeating past mistakes. It is does not expand on that; it is not forward thinking. | |
| Jul 9, 2020 at 19:40 | comment | added | terdon | It should be. But it wasn't. And many of us (mods) felt afraid to ask or disagree for fear of losing our diamonds and then being pilloried in the press. You are absolutely right that these things shouldn't be needed and should have been self-evident. Indeed, they were self-evident when most of us started using this network of sites. However, given how much trust has been lost, seeing those clauses there make me feel much more comfortable signing. Yes, I wish they weren't needed , but they are, so I am very glad they're here. | |
| Jul 9, 2020 at 17:07 | comment | added | jscs | Sure, thanks for that note. I guess the line I'm trying to make -- and I'm still not sure I've gotten it across despite how many times I've edited this -- is that "you can discuss and disagree with network policy in public" should be a rock-bottom fundamental that's accorded to everyone. To elevate that bare minimum as a special heres-a-carrot guarantee just for mods is...insufficient. | |
| Jul 9, 2020 at 16:46 | comment | added | fbueckert | Point viii was added based on my feedback; it was a callback to Monica's situation where she did question a policy, politely, and got summarily booted for doing so. After that scenario, putting that in writing was important. I'm not sure I'm totally happy with what we got, but I thought I'd put that out there. | |
| Jul 9, 2020 at 15:08 | comment | added | jscs | I feel like I should add that mods who decide to accept this agreement still have my respect. We all have to make our own choices about what's acceptable -- this is just my calculus. | |
| Jul 9, 2020 at 15:04 | history | answered | jscs | CC BY-SA 4.0 |