Thanks Amir and MZMcBride for disclosing the action.
A volunteer has been punished for speaking up in defense of fellow
volunteer and paid contributors, whose contribution was being sidelined
and suffocated by people "in charge" of the specific space, i.e. the
people they were doing their best to help.
The message which was sanctioned was even of an especially thoughtful
kind, in my opinion, because it didn't attempt to submerge the other
users with walls of text, politically correct tirades or otherwise
charged statements. It was merely a heartfelt interjection to help
people stop, reconsider their actions and self-improve without the need
of lectures. Was this peculiar effort at constructive facilitation
considered? If not, what alternatives or constructive suggestions were
provided?
After several negative examples discussed in the last few months on this
list,* this action conclusively proves in my eyes the failure of the
Code of conduct to be a positive force for our community, at least sso
far and in the present conditions.
The committee needs to immediately resign or be disbanded, and be
reformed on a more solid basis.
Federico
(*) And not a single disclosed positive action, as far as I know. But it
might have been lost due to the lack of a transparency report. If one
was released or is upcoming, sorry; I'll revise my conclusions accordingly.
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