So the exploding heads vote is well past a day old now. The vote is almost unanimous to defederate. It’s been obvious since a few hours after it went up what the community wants. It’s now taken well past two weeks to defederate from an obvious alt right troll and bot platform. Twelve days of silence from admins, then a day long debate thread, then an interminable vote. I requested word on when the vote could be called closed, but my question was acknowledged and ignored.

For my own self, I have at this point no faith in the administration of this instance anymore to be able to handle this. It’s very clear that wanting to not offend the alt-right is far, far more important than hearing the wishes of the users, and always has been. However, this is the agora, so I’m open to hear a counterpoint explaining why it’s actually very reasonable to spend weeks upon weeks in endless circling debate over whether or not it’s fine to joke about murdering marginalized people.

Edit: since my thread was locked and I can’t reply to accusations, I only joined beehaw because of this, about two days ago. I’m not “a beehaw user”, I’ve barely got my account there active. On this site I have a community and four hundred posts, but I’ll be closing that now.

I opened this thread after seeking comment and being ignored for a week. You can see it in my post history if you like. That’s enough of that for me.

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    This thread doesn’t really seem like a good faith attempt to have a discussion. Instead it’s a Beehaw user trying to stir up shit.

    So the exploding heads vote is well past a day old now. The vote is almost unanimous to defederate.

    The count from earlier today was:

    Excluding non-local votes the vote is currently ~60/40.

    OP is giving the appearance of a concerned user but they haven’t bothered to read the [Announcement] thread: https://sh.itjust.works/post/415764 which explains both the length of the voting period as well as the reasoning behind it.

    This is by no means the final process and we’re depending on your feedback and discussion to keep improving things going forward.

    We understand the concerns about vote manipulation and the discussions around alternate voting methods (like ranked choice). Use this thread to discuss the changes and any concerns or suggestions that you have.

    As of now, the tentative plan is to run with this for the first week, see how many issues exist that require voting, generate the vote threads, complete a round of votes and then iterate on the process once we can all see what works and what doesn’t work so well.

    We have a thread for discussion of the changes to how Voting works, please use that one.