On an analytical level I’m fairly sympathetic to the points the comments here are making, and I think this post could have been clearer about what exactly it did and did not want from the community.
That said, I’m pretty sad that so few people have engaged with this post on an emotional level. An active Forum user has said that they and at least some of their friends are feeling bad and threatened and want support from the community. It would have been pretty easy for people to offer emotional support and community feeling without thereby committing to making bad cause prioritisation decisions.
In general I haven’t been super sympathetic to people who complain about the attitude of commenters on the Forum, but reading the bulk of sceptical comments here I do not think it reflects very well on us. (Dicentra’s comment being the main counterexample.)
On an analytical level I’m fairly sympathetic to the points the comments here are making, and I think this post could have been clearer about what exactly it did and did not want from the community.
That said, I’m pretty sad that so few people have engaged with this post on an emotional level. An active Forum user has said that they and at least some of their friends are feeling bad and threatened and want support from the community. It would have been pretty easy for people to offer emotional support and community feeling without thereby committing to making bad cause prioritisation decisions.
In general I haven’t been super sympathetic to people who complain about the attitude of commenters on the Forum, but reading the bulk of sceptical comments here I do not think it reflects very well on us. (Dicentra’s comment being the main counterexample.)
Reason and compassion, always.