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by surrealize 1674 days ago
Some interesting context from one of the resigning mod team members: https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/qzme1z/moderation_tea...
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Makes me wonder if it's a "who's watching the watchers" situation.

Once, in my fraternity, someone was unhappy with something. (Politics, basically.) They proposed an entirely new board to watch the existing elected executive council. Basically all of the brotherhood would have been involved in some form of administration and oversight.

At this point, one of our more politically knowledgeable brothers laughed, and said, "But who's watching the watchers." The movement quickly failed.

how is it interesting?
Because it effectively confirms that the mod team wanted to be able to set and enforce CoC rules on the core team. If the core team can set CoC rules they can't effectively be moderated since they can change the rules.
isn’t that kind of like the press secretary telling the president what to do?