We recently posted about a moderation action on here. We did it for transparency reasons, but I agree with some of you that this has become an unintentional public shaming. I’m sorry about that and I apologized to the person the action was about personally. I’ve hidden that post, and we will publish further moderation actions here.
I also have no idea what’s going on and also don’t really want to know.
However, I wanted to add that in my opinion it is not such a good idea that the people issuing the ban also write the reason for the ban (which reads like an affront). (I mean, what if you apply for a Nix job and then something related to you is on this page, ouch.)
I am also not a fan of hiding threads nor posts. (Did I say this already ). It feels like censorship. We can delete our own posts ourselves.
I hope all turns out well!
EDIT: I just reconsidered my comment about hiding/deleting posts. There are, of course, a few reasons when a post should be deleted, if the author is not willing to do so herself.
I have not been involved in the community for a good while now (nor the recent drama) but this sounds very uncharacteristic of Graham and I can personally vouch for him being very welcoming, encouraging and in my eyes being one of the reasons the community grew to the size it is now.
Such a highly opinionated individual who is unable to take outside information in should not have a position on almost every team of the entire Nix project.
This is becoming a joke project very quickly.
You are of course entitled to hold any opinion you want, but this isn’t really a constructive way to address whatever issue(s) you may have with other individuals or the project in general.
We (as a project) absolutely need a “conflict resolution” process (for almost any definition of conflict) which is where the efforts should be directed IMHO.