The Online Team is the current custodian of an important shared resource (the Forum). If the team canāt actually commit to fulfilling its āForum custodianā duties, e.g. because the priorities of CEA might change, then it should probably start trying to (responsibly) hand that role off to another person/āgroup.
I agree with this, though I feel like the devil is in the details of what āForum custodianā means. FWIW I donāt think anyone at CEA is interested in shutting down the Forum, or reducing the moderation capacity.
Maybe a useful example of ānew engineering workā is: we might want to start using the ārejected contentā feature that LW has, but weād need an engineer to update the codebase to enable it on the Forum. So under a strict āno new engineering workā policy, we couldnāt start rejecting content, and in fact thereās a lot of moderation we couldnāt do. We are still doing some engineering work, but we broadly need to justify any work we do under CEAās new strategy. Maybe you think that, if we fail to justify this work under CEAās strategy, but we still think itās valuable to do, then thatās the point at which we should start handing the Forum off to someone else?
I agree with this, though I feel like the devil is in the details of what āForum custodianā means. FWIW I donāt think anyone at CEA is interested in shutting down the Forum, or reducing the moderation capacity.
Maybe a useful example of ānew engineering workā is: we might want to start using the ārejected contentā feature that LW has, but weād need an engineer to update the codebase to enable it on the Forum. So under a strict āno new engineering workā policy, we couldnāt start rejecting content, and in fact thereās a lot of moderation we couldnāt do. We are still doing some engineering work, but we broadly need to justify any work we do under CEAās new strategy. Maybe you think that, if we fail to justify this work under CEAās strategy, but we still think itās valuable to do, then thatās the point at which we should start handing the Forum off to someone else?