Roughly five weeks ago the topic titled “Forum Moderation” was closed. With Jonah saying: This is really hindering our ability to take in this feedback and discuss it amongst ourselves … going forward we are going to try to take this feedback into account, and hopefully have more to share soon, an…

[image] seize: then there has been no communication from the Privacy Guides team, or forum moderators around what came out of this topic in regards to the Privacy Guides team and forum moderators This is pretty typical as @win11.shading291 noted it takes a while… and as @jonah has said he wil…

Yes, @kissu was suspended instead of fully banned, and the suspension expired on April first. With regard to what I’m expecting as for a “resolution” to the original “forum moderation” topic, and to some extent this topic is not so much a detailed justification for moderation action, and more so ju…

I am going to hazard a guess and say that it’s potentially difficult and very time consuming to moderate the forum, on top of the team’s other responsibilities. I don’t foresee this team being intentionally malicious when it comes to moderating.

I thought this interview was insightful and it made me see and understand the PG forum and management of it in a much more positive way: Privacy Guides Panel - Firewalls Don't Stop Dragons Podcast Edit: apologies if I caused confusion, but the discussion I’m referring to happens in the bonus conten…

I’ve been meaning to listen to that interview. Maybe now is the time.

It may very well be a good interview, in fact I’d bet it is (don’t have time to watch it right now unfortunately), but actions speak louder than words and all one needs to do is look at the actions of moderators to know there’s a problem, and one they have not addressed, regardless of whatever posit…

I just listened to the whole episode. I’m not sure how this interview is related to the topic at all?

[image] win11.shading291: I’m not sure how this interview is related to the topic at all? Listening to Jonah talk about his view on moderation made me feel a lot less irked by the PG forum, because his views were reasonable and considered. But what’s more for me, hearing both Nate and Jonah’s…

All well and good. But what I said still applies nonetheless [image] Question Regarding Forum Moderation Transparency and Feedback light_bulbMeta I believe that PG is not being malicious or petty at all. But when discrepancies become pattern, that’s concerning…

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I believe that PG is not being malicious or petty at all. But when discrepancies become pattern, that’s concerning.

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