>>9164I reiterate my critique:
>>8944 and append some development:
>Note, this will have nothing to do with what they actually say, rather it will only be based on the manner in which they say it, and after they have demonstrating more than a passing interestThis seems to me a naive view. If you do not take some account of what people say, you give carte blanche to obsessives to push their case to the detriment of the board as a whole. Instead of having democratic representation for the board as a whole, you have a relatively narrow group of representatives which is already subject to the selective pressure of "Is willing to use GNU/Discord".
As the situation appears to be a fait accompli, I make the following practical suggestion: Have, pinned on /leftypol/, a feedback thread, much like the existing one on meta but broader in scope. Incorporate the discussions of the posters union within it so that board users can give their feedback. This is, being an anonymous board, vulnerable to samefagging and so on. But moderators and Matrix users alike can at least take account of the arguments presented, and should Matrix gang and the modocracy find themselves in accord in a way disagreeable to the userbase of the actual board, it would provide an actual outlet. If we are to have a union on this model, at least give us commoners a union hall in which to meet.
Furthermore (and this is the root of some of my concern with the union concept): I would argue that the recent problems of /leftypol/ have primarily been undermoderation, not overmoderation. (My three point plan in that regard would be as follows: Aggressively ban idpol threads even on /b/ (
specifically I would underscore ones about transgenderism.), aggressively ban soyjaking, and "push" avatar users to make Aliyah to /GET/). Overmoderation is a risk, especially if we go down the route of self important sectarian pettiness, but the difficulty is not in "More or less" but in what, specifically is moderated. But there is a vocal, obsessive little group of people who wish to sail us into
both the Scylla of "Chan Culure" undermoderation
and the Charybdis of sectarian overmoderation. If they're given the time of day by the moderator team or the union, the site is doomed.