Board Thread:Policies/@comment-10473115-20170415164119/@comment-16461120-20170415200448

Mrkermit wrote: First to the use of delete tags which seems to be main issue. That's not the main issue, it's not a problem with a single topic or a single user.

The main issue is that people seemingly can't express dissent of late without things becoming personal. Monolith616 implying someone's opposition is just because they're a badge hunter was merely the boiling point that's resulted in the current boycott and very real potential permanent loss of some of the site's top contributors, but the condescending undertones and being told our opinions are meaningless by various other mods/admin have been simmering for quite a while.

As previously said in this thread and elsewhere, myself and several other mods/admin had already come to avoid fully participating in debates because there's the expectation that we'll increasingly spend more time defending ourselves offtopic, endlessly explaining minutiae, or being asked to read tealeaves to guess how someone may have wanted to vote based upon comments made weeks before a proposal had even developed out of a discussion nor a vote actually called for, than we will working together to resolve things through any kind of actual structure.

I don't want to walk away, and I think it's safe to say the various other mods/admin that I've had extensive private chats with about this specific topic who've told me they plan to leave don't want to walk away either, but we shouldn't be asked to be part of a double standard where we're asked to ban disrespectful users, yet also tolerate mods/admin disrespecting contributors.