Muravyets wrote:People express their opinions, and those opinions are theirs, by definition. Does it really matter if other people think differently? There's nothing stopping other views from being expressed, after all, right? And even if some of the suggestions are thought of only by a few people, what really matters is not what everyone else thinks of them, but what moderation and admin think of them. If you've looked at the earlier parts of the thread, you might have noticed that reminders were mentioned that the substantive suggestions are really only small tweaks to systems and rules that moderation already follows anyway. Only two actual basic changes to how things are done have been suggested, and both of those affect appeals only -- the establishment of a set of appeals-only mods, and either eliminating the practice of consulting the original mod who made a ruling that is under review or keeping those consultations but making them public.
And again, those are only suggestions. There's nothing at all that forces anyone to accept such proposals.
Yeah, I'm not saying it matters. To the contrary, all I was saying is that I disagree with Gen, who says that the fact that this thread exists reflects badly on the moderation team, whereas I view it as a positive reflection.