There's a point I want to expand on regarding on the "personal private/public" matter.
Transparency is important here for a couple reasons:
* All relevant information needs to be out in the open so that there is no miscommunication, no missing context, and little room for factual ambiguity.
* The personal elements need to be present so that the everyone understands how previous moderatorship and misuse of the domain has had a toxic effect on the community and staff culture.
Prior to dev restructuring, the staff leads generally handled conflicts by DMing the relevant parties for private conversations. What this has lead to is a lot of "he said/she said" with little transparency and oftentimes many people getting stuck on the wrong page. This became even more of an issue in the events leading up to Rob and pv2's removal.
As further evidence for why "keep it to DMs" isn't always such a good option, I'd simply point to the recent fiasco that was SFGHQ, where a similar (yet somehow even worse) dynamic took place with the head admin privately attempting to manipulate people through DMs for political ends -- as far as I can tell, their whole staff (current and former) still haven't been clued into all of the details as to what's supposed to be true and what isn't.
Lack of transparency degrades trust, and for good reason.
Transparency is important here for a couple reasons:
* All relevant information needs to be out in the open so that there is no miscommunication, no missing context, and little room for factual ambiguity.
* The personal elements need to be present so that the everyone understands how previous moderatorship and misuse of the domain has had a toxic effect on the community and staff culture.
Prior to dev restructuring, the staff leads generally handled conflicts by DMing the relevant parties for private conversations. What this has lead to is a lot of "he said/she said" with little transparency and oftentimes many people getting stuck on the wrong page. This became even more of an issue in the events leading up to Rob and pv2's removal.
As further evidence for why "keep it to DMs" isn't always such a good option, I'd simply point to the recent fiasco that was SFGHQ, where a similar (yet somehow even worse) dynamic took place with the head admin privately attempting to manipulate people through DMs for political ends -- as far as I can tell, their whole staff (current and former) still haven't been clued into all of the details as to what's supposed to be true and what isn't.
Lack of transparency degrades trust, and for good reason.