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Expand Up @@ -107,6 +107,8 @@ I'll spell out some reasons for how absurd the claimed "reasons" for hiding are.

In the PSF's history, 3 people showed non-trivial knowledge of such stuff: me, David Mertz, and Donald Stufft. I was banned for 3 months. David had been suspended from Discourse forever. Donald did chime in, but had no interest: he said SC elections are so trivial (in formal senses) that the choice of election method probably wouldn't make any difference to which 5 winners were picked. I agreed with him on that. but also had a lot of sympathy with Gregory Smith's motivating desire to switch to a method that allowed voters to express more of what they believed (in the then-current "block Approval", for each candidate you can only say "yes" or "no" - no possibility to express that you like one more than some other, or, if so, to express how strongly you like one more - it's a fine method, but can leave people frustrated with how little they can express).

- Guido told me that the other mod told him that none of the flags came from core developers. But core developers are the only ones who _can_ vote in SC elections now - they're the only ones with direct interest in the topic. None objected to Guido's post via the flag mechanism.

As things turned out, the core devs agreed to switch to "bloc STAR", thanks to Guido pushing for it. Is Guido an election theory expert? He wasn't at the time :wink:. In the background, I gave him a crash course on election theory via email, and pushed him toward STAR. He is, of course, a very quick learner, and convinced himself it was the best choice. So he spoke his own mind, and by agreement never mentioned that, in some senses, he was channeling me for a change.

But that isn't the point here either. The point is how very maddening bad moderation policies can be. And also how maddening trying to point that out can be. Matthew's is one of the few cases I've heard of where the CoC WG even bothered to reply to email. Sure, they're busy. In which case perhaps they shouldn't butt in so much on trivialities to begin with :wink:.
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