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NixOS moderation team resigns over NixOS Steering Committee's interference

We resign, effective immediately, in protest of the Steering Committee’s ongoing pattern of attempting to interfere with moderation team operation, membership and specific moderation decisions. This is not a statement we enjoy making, and we apologize to the community for leaving right before an election that is bound to be contentious, and likely now more so. Unfortunately, the Constitution does not provide a meaningful recourse to SC overreach, and we cannot in good faith continue operating u...

Looking back on the past year, I believe the lack of transparency has at first served us well in terms of reducing drama and giving some “breathing room”, but since this summer, I have felt that balance shift. I will defer to the mass resignation of core maintainers of the past two years due to the poor decisions of basically exactly the same people as the SC members who admitted to being the problem above as to whether they actually have better judgement than the rust project. Especially the desire for more “friction” in the moderation team (I’d like to hear the SC’s perspective on that wording) is some pretty bad optics to me, to the point of blurring the line between serious incompetence and questionable intentions.

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