Probably a consequence of me trying to say how I feel about the vague zeitgeist at the moment, but I think I was complaining mostly about proposals for governance that do seem aimed at eliminating bad actors or bad behaviour.
Governance primarily should be in place to protect the average good person from doing something ill-considered; such as accounting for funding streams that is irregular and inexact which could cause problems later on, or having slap-dash recruitment practices which are not designed to ensure you are being fair to all applicants.
I think this sounds reasonable and I don’t object to it, except insofar as I’d want to be sure it was actually pulling its weight and not guarding against hypothetical problems that don’t occur or don’t matter much. “We weren’t paying attention and we lost some money” is common and damaging: yes you should have good accounting. Other stuff I don’t know.
I like your point that it doesn’t feel like “leadership” (scare quotes because I still don’t really believe it exists) don’t have as much trust in the community as vice versa. I personally think this is a matter of perception versus reality—most of the time when this has come up “leadership” has argued that they don’t actually want people to defer to them and they’re not sure why people are getting that impression, etc.
Probably a consequence of me trying to say how I feel about the vague zeitgeist at the moment, but I think I was complaining mostly about proposals for governance that do seem aimed at eliminating bad actors or bad behaviour.
I think this sounds reasonable and I don’t object to it, except insofar as I’d want to be sure it was actually pulling its weight and not guarding against hypothetical problems that don’t occur or don’t matter much. “We weren’t paying attention and we lost some money” is common and damaging: yes you should have good accounting. Other stuff I don’t know.
I like your point that it doesn’t feel like “leadership” (scare quotes because I still don’t really believe it exists) don’t have as much trust in the community as vice versa. I personally think this is a matter of perception versus reality—most of the time when this has come up “leadership” has argued that they don’t actually want people to defer to them and they’re not sure why people are getting that impression, etc.