I am commenting here largely to voice my agreement with most of what has been said, because I figure the more voices chiming in, the better an idea we have of the general consensus among players.
To be a bit more specific than just "I agree with most of this", I think to begin with, we need complete and full transparency from the mods on what has happened here. I think it'd be best to hold off condemning any particular person or making any final decisions until after we have all of that information. Linda, Batty, and co. have already given us all the information on their side of the story. Now we need the mods'.
And I believe this ought to include an account from all four mods of their involvement in this particular incident, as well as their general duties on modding, etc. I mean full transparency. About everything. No holding anything back, spell out everything explicitly.
I'm very sorry that it's gotten to this point. Being scrutinized to this degree is nervewracking and can feel unfair and like an attack, especially when this entire situation came about from people feeling as though they are being attacked in the first place. But this isn't supposed to be another attack on the mods--there is obviously a problem here and no one is sure quite how deep it runs, so we need full disclosure in order to understand the full scope of the situation and to be able to regain trust. Hopefully once all of the cards are on the table, on everyone's behalf, we as a game (players and mods together) can sort out what needs to be improved so that we can move on from this.
(Also, I am chiming in to say that yes, absolutely we need more mods and more delegation amongst them going forward. Plot mods, maybe a specific dedicated echo request mod or two, app mods, maybe a specific PR mod to mediate in the wake of all of this? The more the duties are spread out, the less stressful things are likely to become, and hopefully the better we'll be able to handle things.)
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To be a bit more specific than just "I agree with most of this", I think to begin with, we need complete and full transparency from the mods on what has happened here. I think it'd be best to hold off condemning any particular person or making any final decisions until after we have all of that information. Linda, Batty, and co. have already given us all the information on their side of the story. Now we need the mods'.
And I believe this ought to include an account from all four mods of their involvement in this particular incident, as well as their general duties on modding, etc. I mean full transparency. About everything. No holding anything back, spell out everything explicitly.
I'm very sorry that it's gotten to this point. Being scrutinized to this degree is nervewracking and can feel unfair and like an attack, especially when this entire situation came about from people feeling as though they are being attacked in the first place. But this isn't supposed to be another attack on the mods--there is obviously a problem here and no one is sure quite how deep it runs, so we need full disclosure in order to understand the full scope of the situation and to be able to regain trust. Hopefully once all of the cards are on the table, on everyone's behalf, we as a game (players and mods together) can sort out what needs to be improved so that we can move on from this.
(Also, I am chiming in to say that yes, absolutely we need more mods and more delegation amongst them going forward. Plot mods, maybe a specific dedicated echo request mod or two, app mods, maybe a specific PR mod to mediate in the wake of all of this? The more the duties are spread out, the less stressful things are likely to become, and hopefully the better we'll be able to handle things.)