Seven weeks so far…

[maia_bob]

454 emails this week of which 303 are labeled OTW - !General and 134 are labeled OTW – Board. The proportion of emails to IM chats is moving towards more chats. My calendar says ~15 hour week. I didn’t make it to a single official committee meeting which kind of blows my mind because it feels like this whole week has been All-OTW, all the time. *reads transcripts*

One of things I couldn’t talk about last week (Six weeks so far…) and the week before (Five weeks so far…) was Meta and you're lucky I only joined the board recently or I would have been not talking about it for over six months. if you're interested, my personal decision making process went a lot like this:

I would like to emphasise that this is a Board decision, and while AD&T, Support and Comms are receiving the feedback, they are not the instigators. Keep communicating, this is important. Be kind, this is important too.

I am also open to continuing discussing it, this is an invitation to comment or PM me if you want to talk about it with me.

ETA: Also! HUGE thank you to J. who got up when I called him at 1:35am his time because the AO3 was down for logged out users. THANK YOU!

Comments

[enigel]

Hm, so to me it looks like the cons still outweigh the pros in sheer... weight, but even if they don't, then some / more consideration should have been shown (as in outspoken acknowledgement; as in formal, not private) to those most affected by the cons. Instead, in-org communication has... glossed over the affectedness of some of the committees most affected by the cons.

I'm not even sure how much I *can* comment? And how much we're actually *supposed* to only do in private messaging / rants?

(Yeah, I thought I was done after ranting at you in private, but it seems I do have ~feelings spilling over.)

[maia_bob]

You are welcome to feel at me in public or in private :)

Yeah, for me it came down to a strong sense that the line between Meta and 'pure fanwork' was not so much a line as a sliding scale - and I couldn't honestly draw a line where one started and the other ended.

After that it felt like an ethical decision - why include some fanworks and not others?

I am deeply sorry that some committees are feeling the affects so negatively. Comms (who are doing amazing work) and the Board are answering public questions, and Board is working on more communications which I hope will help.

I understand AD&T are feeling particularly hard done by right now :(