Shedding light on a three-month suspension

The scope of that was strictly limited to interactions before the ban was announced. It said nothing about anything after the announcement, or about any of the specific claimed charges.

I since went on to address all of those too, again being as open and transparent as ethically possible. While I endorse Chris McDonough’s analyses, we didn’t collaborate, and I told him nothing during the pre-publication review that wasn’t already publicly known.

My own analyses differ in some respects, in one case disclosing info that wasn’t publicly known, and in a few cases with somewhat different guesses about what some of the vaguer charges may have been about. Links to commentary about all the charges are conveniently arranged on a single page now.

Accounts of interactions after the ban announcement are scattered across my “Ban Q&A” page, and I’m content to leave it that way. While I believe I’ve made a full account of “my side” of those too now, there is no larger coherent story I have to tell about post-announcement interactions. Just details.

I can’t really guess about the newer material. The pre-ban account was dry as toast. Some of the newer material is blunt, and a few parts exude “righteous outrage”. So don’t look at if if you’re a fan of the way this ban was sold and can’t tolerate opposition. I won’t even link to the new parts directly, just point to the top-level “PSF topics” page.

Note: this is just FYI. I’m not looking for an argument here. I know many people are still curious, and today I believe I finished disclosing everything material about “my side”.

What would be interesting to me is someone who looked into a claimed “CoC violation” (not just “I take it on trust”) and agrees with it. I haven’t yet seen anyone do so, neither on the PSF’s Discourse, nor on any other site. Quite the contrary. Ban supporters seem to studiously avoid mentioning any of the claimed violations. “Dark patterns”, sure, but not specific claims.

If nobody can be found who agrees with them, what “lesson” can possibly be learned from them?

If you do agree with one or more, I won’t bite you. I’ll gratefully take it into account, and won’t even reply unless you say you want to discuss it. Of course you can’t post anything in a public space without risking some opposition, but there’s no need for anyone here to be uncivil or accusatory, Play nice :smile:.

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