My membership and discussion with the IRCC

[ljlbox at tiscali.it]

Tonight, I've given up the Ubuntu membership I acquired in 2007.

It was a decision that came after several events where feelings
were involved, though I consider one thing a climax in particular,
and it is when I was asked by the IRC Council to join their
#ubuntu-irc-council channel to discuss some things.

The way I see what happened goes like this:
- I was asked "what I was going to do", then reassured it wasn't
   a "trial" or attempt to "oust" me when I was perplexed at what
   that question was even intended to mean
- I was more explicitly asked to explain how I thought "my
   position as an op was tenable", while still being reassured
   it was not anything resembling a "trial"
- eventually it was made a fair bit clearer that the whole thing
   was, in fact, spawned by complaints about needing to "do some-
   thing" about my terrible attitude, and by the "recent event"
   (deciding to take rww's suggestion to remove the FloodBots)
- I explained how I thought my position was quite tenable, and,
   on the other hand, how some other people's position wasn't so
   much
- I was basically told that the discussion was over, and when I
   almost begged the members who were clearest about it being over
   to at least explain how they thought they could reconcile their
   trial-style questions with all the reassurances they gave me
   about it being only a discussion, I was only met with their
   silence.


http://privatepaste.com/5f40b2ac8a has full logs of the discussion,
which I've been authorized to provide. Those of you who are actually
serious about the idea of a community where people's feelings and
motivations matters, please read these logs, even though they're long.


As to the people who've expressed their support towards me during
the past months: thank you. Now please also consider speaking up
right here, because I know you were more numerous than the "3 or 4"
people who complained about me that the IRCC mentioned.
Maybe you are less numerous now, after me acting so vocally, but
remember what you thought about my stances.


by LjL
ljlbox at tiscali.it

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