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NixOS moderation team resigns over NixOS Steering Committee's interference

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Re: NixOS moderation team resigns over NixOS Steering Committee's interference

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Post by constantcrying »

Why is around 50% of the news I read about NixOS about political infighting?

For no other community this is the case. The technology appears interesting, but from the outside it definitely looks like a continuously collapsing project.

Re: NixOS moderation team resigns over NixOS Steering Committee's interference

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Post by srid »

abtinf wrote: post #34

I am unfamiliar with the issues that led to this event. Could someone point me to examples of controversial moderation decisions that were “interfered” with?

Jon Ringer (who got permabanned) has a YouTube video talking about several events around NixOS moderation:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gp0FI8Gw1iA

My own permanban is detailed in this post:

https://srid.ca/nixos-mod

Re: NixOS moderation team resigns over NixOS Steering Committee's interference

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Post by soraminazuki »

bsimpson wrote: post #39

One of the reasons I stopped using Nix is how much more often I saw posts about political bickering than anything helpful. I'm not aware of any other open source project so consumed with virtue signal bikeshedding.

That's hyperbolic. Help related topics are very active within the Nix Discourse.

https://discourse.nixos.org/c/learn/9

Re: NixOS moderation team resigns over NixOS Steering Committee's interference

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Post by srid »

xyzzy_plugh wrote: post #55
zahlman wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> this is not the entire moderation team I see five names. Who's remaining? > [the SC response] is a good summary of the entire situation It's unfathomable to me that they're even considering this: > Are you asking for an elected body to be accountable to an unelected people. I don’t think this is entirely impossible, but it at least needs more thought put into it, and before taking any sort of bureaucratic approach,…

> I see five names. The website lists 7: https://nixos.org/community/teams/moderation/ It feels inaccurate to say "the team resigns" when it's ~70%.

The remaining two are: Aleksana & lassulus

Aleksana will be "withdrawing for personal reasons." https://discourse.nixos.org/t/a-statement-from-members-of-th...

lassulus will "stay a moderator until at least post [SC] election" https://discourse.nixos.org/t/a-statement-from-members-of-th...

Re: NixOS moderation team resigns over NixOS Steering Committee's interference

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Post by zahlman »

perching_aix wrote: post #58
squigz wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I like when the news takes a simple trend in a community and blows it out of proportion. I bet there's news stories talking about how the finger guns meme is actually an act of silent protest or some such.

It's like the ok emoji being an "alt right hidden signal" all over again. Came across a so-far hopefully untainted, different memetic phrase yesterday: "millenial grey". The girl in her video [0] successfully identified that it is largely rooted in a 2023 media campaign. She then proceeded to feature two supposedly "completely average" friends of hers as definitely unbiased anchors, and held a community poll, also su…

I'm not saying this is an expression of ideology. I'm saying it's consistent with other observable signs of in-group identification.

Re: NixOS moderation team resigns over NixOS Steering Committee's interference

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Post by CursedSilicon »

srid wrote: post #63
abtinf wrote: post #34

I am unfamiliar with the issues that led to this event. Could someone point me to examples of controversial moderation decisions that were “interfered” with?

Jon Ringer (who got permabanned) has a YouTube video talking about several events around NixOS moderation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gp0FI8Gw1iA My own permanban is detailed in this post: https://srid.ca/nixos-mod

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Re: NixOS moderation team resigns over NixOS Steering Committee's interference

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Post by abtinf »

bsimpson wrote: post #39

One of the reasons I stopped using Nix is how much more often I saw posts about political bickering than anything helpful. I'm not aware of any other open source project so consumed with virtue signal bikeshedding.

By “political bickering”, do you mean debates over organizational direction/technical flame wars, debates over political philosophy/ideology, or something else?
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