I have had an influential senior EA explicitly deny support for my project because they didn’t like my opinions and decided on my behalf that I wasn’t going to suitably change them (obviously I can’t be very specific, not least because they didn’t tell me which opinions were unacceptable, so I can’t say much to show whether this might have been justified in my case. But for the record, I’m not into justifying oppression, harassing people, defrauding people, or any of the classic reasons to kick someone out of an EA party)
I would be a lot more comfortable putting my name and more details to this anecdote if the general attitude of senior EA staff was more ‘shit, all these anecdotes should strongly update us towards the belief that this happens. We should actively try to find out about such cases and do something about them’ rather than ‘we polled each other and everyone said they hadn’t done this, so I guess it doesn’t happen’.
Maybe there’s nothing more they could actually do; but until they figure something out I will feel compelled to use a burner account for certain criticisms.
I have had an influential senior EA explicitly deny support for my project because they didn’t like my opinions and decided on my behalf that I wasn’t going to suitably change them (obviously I can’t be very specific, not least because they didn’t tell me which opinions were unacceptable, so I can’t say much to show whether this might have been justified in my case. But for the record, I’m not into justifying oppression, harassing people, defrauding people, or any of the classic reasons to kick someone out of an EA party)
I would be a lot more comfortable putting my name and more details to this anecdote if the general attitude of senior EA staff was more ‘shit, all these anecdotes should strongly update us towards the belief that this happens. We should actively try to find out about such cases and do something about them’ rather than ‘we polled each other and everyone said they hadn’t done this, so I guess it doesn’t happen’.
Maybe there’s nothing more they could actually do; but until they figure something out I will feel compelled to use a burner account for certain criticisms.