So, if for nothing else than to help people learn from our mistakes, I'd like to start compiling accounts of the unravelling/failure of social.coop.
I will be reaching out to particular people over the next few days, but if anyone out there left/chose not to join social.coop for Reasons and would be willing to talk about it (anonymously if you want), please DM.
Please boost for visibility.
@nev My perspective:
The problems on #socialcoop were already clearly visible back in June/July when I had my initial interactions. I decided to check it out after @eloquence and I had talked about it at #osbridge. At the time the CoC discussion was happening in a Google doc, and since I’ve got some expertise there I decided to contribute and see how the reaction was.
Here’s some of the discussion .
After which:
- There was similar behavior on Loomio. Here’s a thread that caused at least one trans person to leave #socialcoop Again, no apparent reaction from leaders. https://www.loomio.org/d/QdE02gzt/federation-policy/55
- the revised version of CoC put forward to a membership vote continued to ignore best practices (as well as my and others’ input), explicitly relegating people from marginalized groups to a footnote.
@melody discussed this at https://www.loomio.org/d/SuHPnjvh/code-of-conduct-and-reporting-guidelines-rc1-membership-vote-/48
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