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In reply to @infinisil:matrix.org
Artturin: Alright I'll just go for this. Any objections ronef, Jonas Chevalier, raitobezarius?

In reply to @danielle:fairydust.space
nobody, and i mean nobody, with long-term large oss moderation experience is gonna be willing to sign up for dealing with the nix situation

To close the topic of mod neutrality, since I left it hanging.

I agree with danielle that it would remove too many important voices to disallow the mods from participating in the conversation. It's still important to put steps towards keeping the mod neutrality perception.

A more gradual approach would be to establishing the convention that a mod refrain from modding topics they are participating in. If no other mod is available, or all the mods are engaged in the conversation, then bias towards the mod that isn't taking the opposing view of the subject, and finally the mod that isn't in direct reply. Modding is hard so I am suggesting this more as a guideline instead of rule. Mods need the freedom to apply their own judgement as well.

It's also important that the mods are generally in the mindset of calming things down and come to resolution. If you can find neutral third-parties to complement the team that would be nice. But I bet you must already be quite busy with the crazy volume of messages that is happening right now.