I do not believe this was a hot-headed overreaction and I don’t appreciate you phrasing this like fact. The SC destroyed the moderation team due to their poor leadership. And yes, it is the SC’s fault.
- The SC’s job this year was to create new systems of governance, not directly control the actions of moderation. This is a fundamental failure of their purpose as a body.
- The SC was either out of touch enough not to realize they would trigger the mass resignation, or they didn’t care. Either possibility is a major failure to care for those they govern.
- Regardless of whether or not the leaks constituted lying, they absolutely revealed that the SC had no consensus on why they were making that decision, and clearly did not understand the decision itself. It’s a major failure in careful decision making.
I ranked a majority of last year’s election winners high on my ballot, and even endorsed one of them. I find them all brilliant people in their own ways. Today, I don’t think running the SC is right for any of them, because this failure was multi-faceted and enormous. This is despite wishing to see all of them continue to be valuable contributors in other ways.
This is not an overreaction. I still call for a full re-election.