A statement from members of the moderation team

This is very disappointing.

I felt like the moderation team took great care of the community and didn’t envy them the many difficult decisions they were faced with.

It’s a very difficult job and I worry that there has been a lack of respect for the skill necessary to do it. “Objective” decisions are impossible and while accountability is important, questioning and undermining whatever decisions were taken doesn’t seem like a step in the right direction.

I’m very sorry to see this team leave and wish the SC had prevented that. I had a lot of hope at the beginning of this first year of the SC and very little of that left, especially with the secrecy around conflicts of interests of one of its members.

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