“Moderation Team Accountability Issues” thread

Some time during 2023 since the blog post was published, a number of comments in the “Moderation Team Accountability Issues” thread got censored ¹ by the moderators. Fortunately, someone who had archived the original uncensored ¹ version has provided it to me informing me of the recent censorship; it can be accessed here.

Among the 13 deleted comments is one by a certain Sven Slootweg (joepie91) ² containing the bizzare accusation that “srid’s post is a bigoted screed that is exactly the sort of thing written by people who - quite literally - intend to murder us marginalized folks, or wish for others to do so.” as well as a response from Jonathan Ringer (jonringer) calling it out, viz.:

[Jon Ringer]: In the reverse, “the average contributor doesn’t feel safe knowing that they can be silenced, suspended, or banned for not exemplifying a particular world view point”.

It’s one thing if srid was inciting violence; but as far I can tell (which hasn’t been too much research), he is proclaiming dissatisfaction with “wokeism” (which includes many viewpoints). Extrapolating this to be “the sort of thing written by people who - quite literally - intend to murder us” seems disingenuous.

On a related note, having srid change aspects of this social media and blog site to prevent a ban action infers that contributing to NixOS may also include someone looking through your internet presence to find anything they may disagree with.

Whatever happen to, “I don’t agree with srid, but thankful for his contributions”. This kind of radicalization and stereotyping of individuals isn’t healthy for either side; if anything, it just creates more animosity. If this animosity continues, I feel like the Nix community will fragment, and that will be a huge paradigm shift as efforts to improve nix will be secondary to uphold a hegemony.