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On 12/12/20 17:23, Michał Górny wrote: |
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> On Sat, 2020-12-12 at 14:42 +0000, Roy Bamford wrote: |
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>> Now we have a council member appealing directly to council again ... |
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>> that sends the message to the community, yet again, that the |
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>> processes that council are supposed to enforce don't apply to |
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>> council |
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>> members. |
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>> Will the damage from that message ever be undone? |
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> Is this really a message sent 'by the event', or a deliberate FUD |
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> spread by people who don't like the message? Because when people start |
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> disputing the process and not the actual arguments, the message I get |
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> is 'they are right and we can't argue with that, so let's try to sweep |
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> it under the rug'. Then we get walls of meaningless text, arguments |
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> about the process, conflicts of interest, etc. |
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Sometimes, such as in this case, it really is the case that the process |
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has been abused to the point where even bothering with arguing what |
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points have actually (finally) been made is a largely quixotic exercise. |
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The direct counterarguments to "I don't like it, make it go away" are, |
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broadly: |
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1. Yes. |
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Which would imply that there was no need to make the complaint in the |
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first place, as the thing being complained about was being removed |
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anyway, which was not the case in this instance. |
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2. No. |
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Which is simply dismissing the complaint out of hand, which did not |
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happen in this case. |
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3. Learn to like it. |
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Which presumes that there is no fault in the thing being objected to, |
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which is not an argument which any moderator has made regarding Off the |
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Wall. |
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4. Tell us why and we can work from there. |
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Which can indeed at least be a path to discover whether common ground |
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exists. Unfortunately the complainant in this case, by their own |
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admission, deliberately avoided this and other council members delayed |
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until ridiculously close to their meeting to bother even starting with |
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if they even started at all. |
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Instead we got trolling, various snide remarks, council usurping the |
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role of moderator with respect to the subject of the complaint, council |
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proceeding to do nothing regarding the post being complained about, a |
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council vote calling for the entire section to be removed from public |
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view instead of anything in regard to the supposed subject of the |
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initial complaint, and at no point were we cleared to actually respond |
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to the cited post. |
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In short, there are actual problems with the process as executed. |