The moderation team's statement strikes me as some very wise words
The moderation team's statement strikes me as some very wise words
Posted Sep 29, 2025 17:37 UTC (Mon) by koverstreet (✭ supporter ✭, #4296)Parent article: NixOS moderation team resigns
> We think that the goal of moderation should not be to avoid difficult conversations - it's to navigate those difficult conversations in ways that remain safe and constructive. We believe we've made considerable progress as a community on making those conversations happen, and we believe they need to happen more for the project to grow, not be suppressed. We thank everyone for the growth that we have seen, and for their efforts to avoid personal focus in discussion, especially recently.
Well said.
These are issues I've been grappling with in my own community, striving to foster a culture where we don't avoid issues and can report on things that are broken and causing genuine frustration without leading to an escalating cycle of tensions and acrimony, or finger pointing and blame shifting.
Being able to highlight problems so we can talk about them and address them is absolutely critical to a functioning engineering culture, and I for one welcome more people bringing this to our attention.