One moderator suspended activity
'm a mod on Academia.SE. After reading the official SE response, I'm going to temporarily suspend my mod activities as well. The disrespect being shown to a well-respected volunteer simply trying to understand what is going on, combined with the terrible handling of the actual firing, combined with the non-apology apology, are a bit over the top.
I encourage The Powers That Be™ to reconsider all their actions here, and think deeply about the types of behavior they want to encourage in their community.
Another one wrote A request for SE employees and CMs User Apparente was suspended That user was very nice and insightful, wonder what happened.
Everything I read it seems like moderators knew from the start of this year that something is going wrong, however they proceed with election for new moderators. When I asked one user why she didn't apply for a position, she told me that big troubles are coming, now I understand on what she implied, however, if you all knew that why moderators kept us in dark? We as ordinary users how should react to these new changes on SE, are we somehow affected? are our identities and location sold to third parties now? Also moderators that suspend their activities commented or implied that they will come back, so what is the issue than?
We as the users are confused and would like to know more about the situation.