Rule Change (New Staff Power)

[Excited Penguin]

And once again it's been pointed out that nobody is preventing you from voicing your concerns. There is no censorship, there is no authoritarianism except inasmuch as a few of us are given a certain degree of authority, manifesting as slightly deeper access to the forum software. We don't have privileges denied to other members, nobody is getting anything out of the job. The system is set up to eliminate personal bias as far as possible; no mod has the authority to go rogue and act unilaterally on high power sanctions, but even if they were to do so the action would be reversed and that mod punished - resigned or maybe even banned, depending on the severity.

If the only objection is that Staff deliberations are held in camera, how would making them public be a fairer system?

Bold mine

Of course it would. Are you kidding me? Transparency is the hallmark of a fair system. What you might perceive as fair might not be. I'm not saying you should delegate actual powers to the membership at large, but I can't see how it could hurt for us to be able to see what's going on behind the curtain so that we might give feedback and point out what we perceive as errors in your thinking. It would still be your decisions as staff, but it would be informed by the membership.