I wish I could 100% trust that this was the case. But there is a complete lack of transparency. How can we know that the responsibility truly does lie with that person? At present, what we have is “trust me, there’s problems, and we need to deal with them, but we can’t say anything”. I don’t feel comfortable with that kind of power being wielded in that much secrecy.
Codes of conduct can be weaponized just like anything else. Secrecy creates dangerous weapons.
Do more people need to leave Discourse and go back to the mailing lists and newsgroups?