Please. You couldn’t take a minute to send a message saying just that? “Tim, we will not reply to you until the ban is over, so please stop.” As I explained on my blog, at the start I had strong reasons for seeking more clarity about what it was you were asking of me. But I was just ignored.
If you read what I sent at all (how could I know?), you spent far more time reading things of mine than doing just that much once would have consumed.
That was extremely disrespectful of my “time & effort” (read that part of the CoC - and several other supremely relevant parts). Its privileged position doesn’t give the SC license to be inhumane either.
If nothing else, read what the CoC says about empathy. I’m unclear on what basis PSF representatives are exempt from following the CoC. On a human level, I was treated worse than garbage. I extended empathy to the SC more than once.
I understand that people in groups often do worse things than any member would do on their own. That’s why I bear none of you personal animus. I also understand that it’s extremely rare for any group, regardless of organization, to own up to the slightest specific mistakes. Just (corporate) business as usual.
Sorry, I didn’t follow that part. If the implication is that my efforts to engage the SC were intended to be destructive, well, I am, for once, speechless. I was only ever trying to limit the damage. Not to me, but to the PSF.
I did a lot of that, which I expect you don’t even know about. For example, when Guido posted some very mild shade at the ban in the “ranked choice” topic. his post got hidden “by community flags”. I woke up to email from press contacts asking what that was about. I took a look and assured them it was probably a nothing-burger, triggered by an automated subsystem (which, as things turned out, it was). They trusted me (trust I earned by only ever being honest and open with them too), and held off reporting it.
The post was soon enough un-hidden again, and the damage was limited to a few hysterical overreactions on, as I recall, Hacker News. The press people thanked me for sparing them from leaping on a non-story. Of course nobody in the PSF did. Nor did I expect them to. I’m retired and had little better to do than try to squash needless drama. I doubt most of you were even aware of these things - and were able to remain blissfully unaware because I was doing PR work for you.
And that totally lost me. Perhaps you can relate it to my “CoC violation” of “defending reverse sexism”, which I never said a single word about? Total silence was indeed sold as “defending” a thing in that case.