All: this thread has dipped in and out of talking about the jonringer decision since before we issued our public statement on the subject, so some confusion is understandable. Let me clear this up right now:
We’ve said what we’re going to say publicly on the subject of jonringer. If you have further feedback for us, send a Discourse message to the moderators group. On that specific subject, do not post your opinions in this thread. Do not create a new thread to post your opinions. Do not jump onto Matrix with your opinions. Send your opinions to us or keep them to yourself.
We are making this rule because we have other things to deal with besides managing the debate about jonringer. Drafting and internally discussing the rather detailed public notice that we published took me, personally, two full volunteer working days, never mind the cost to the other moderators. Nevertheless, I will still volunteer even more of my time to clarify things with you further if you message me. But not if you make a public debate out of it for all the lookie-loos from Reddit to read up on. This isn’t a debate club, and our capacity to deal with brigadiers is not infinite.
As I have in other threads, I will hide any more posts here that attempt to revisit the jonringer decision. Any users who find this instruction difficult to follow may find it difficult to log in for the next day or so, depending on how obnoxious they want to be about it.
Edit: As frustrated as I am with the current rush of never-seen-you-befores here for internet points, I will add that, in the event we mods really get out of pocket and start abusing our power, and we issue instructions like the one above against talking about how we're abusing our power, I'd say that if you want to fix this, the thing to do is to find a trusted community member and privately communicate your concerns to them. Get some triangulation on your perspective. If we really lost it, there's enough power diffused throughout the community that we could be booted and replaced, if enough people talk to the right people and convince them that it's necessary. The fact that this would require having been here long enough to know who to talk to is a feature, not a bug.