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A toon goose?

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Puzzle #1060
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I may just accept that invitation.

However generally I really dislike sockjacketing people without solid evidence, like this.

I feel the same way, and seeing it happen in the body of a governance post is disheartening. I have had serious qualms about most of the recent governance posts, and about the direction that some of the admin team seem determined to steer the ship.

I think it would be inaccurate to characterize it as the instance catering to the wrong voices. However, I am starting to accept that the climate has changed and might no longer be right for me. I believe there are many others who feel similarly.

I have long been of the opinion that the administration of any instance based around the core tenets that dbzer0 still claims should be undergo voluntary, regular rotation. Absent that, the situation is primed for the entrenchment of power and establishment of de facto hierarchies. This is true for both the admin team becoming accustomed to holding a certain level of authority, and for the userbase growing comfortable and complacent with a shift in the admin role from "caretaker" to "leader".

I question whether I am ignoring clear signals in favor of hope.

Generally speaking, I avoid reference.

I'll add whatever to my comments that I wish, thank you kindly. Excellent job of repeating my sentiment that it isn't the time and place for that discussion, terrible follow through on the concept. Police yourself, not me.

I could be mistaken about the defederation from the other side. I saw someone else's comment suggesting that it had taken place, and I did not care enough to find out further if it had or had not. It does not change my stance that we should not defed.

Edit: By the by, the source of "as I understand it" is my own understanding. I would have assumed that was clear, I suppose I'm doubly mistaken.

Disagree, on the basis that capital/lowercase do not inherently change a word. The word is still the same word, despite the case of the first (or any) letter. Spoken aloud, would there be any difference? Is there any way to discern the case of any part of the word in such a circumstance, or are they equivalent? Attempting to dictate case is, at best, performative.

That said, I typically don't refer to Grail at all. I see little benefit in doing so. I can't imagine many interactions that would enrich either party.

This, however, is not the place for discussion of such. It is a place to ponder defederation. As much as I dislike Grail and find prescriptive casing to be an exercise in ridiculosity, I do not see ample reason to persue defederation. As I understand it, the point has become halfway moot, as defed has occured from the other direction.

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Yes, you called me out directly for what you characterized as a borderline personal vendetta in that previous defense. I am glad that you seem to see some of the same signs and signals that I do. My alarm bells just happened to go off slightly sooner than yours, with more intensity. I believe we are coming from the same place of concern based on what you've said here.

I do take a somewhat less charitable view of how the admin conversations on these topics transpire. My perspective, and please note that this is my own personal imagining of events, is that an admin who has a pet governance topic takes that topic to the rest of the group. They make their case for it, and in the absence of much pushback, they post it for general governance discussion. Regardless of whether or not this is accurate, the plausibility of it based on what we observe directly should give us all pause. Hence, I previously suggested that Flatworm/unruffled should take a hiatus from admin duties.

The optics are off, and it is troubling.

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