This is my first post in this topic, and I intend it to be my last. My ban is history now (well, at least my Discourse account has been restored). I’ll pick over its bones in my blog instead.
I want to thank Ethan Furman. The atmosphere of fear here was so thick it took 6 whole days before anyone found the courage to make the first reply. He’s my idea of a role model: someone who cared enough to take personal risk. He may deny it, but that was brave.
Regardless of whether you agreed with his conclusions, the entire community should thank him for his work, and for standing up for what he believes in. Courage is the rarest of virtues.
For those who still feared to click on Ethan’s dissent, I understand, and appreciate your private support. I clicked on it too, but don’t necessarily agree with voting out the current SC. The system itself is broken, and they may or may not say something relevant in their individual nomination announcements (for those who decide to run again).
They’ve done an outstanding job at managing the technical aspects of their charter, and that should be primary. Pablo in particular deserves a universe of credit for the new REPL 
. The SC shouldn’t be in the “ban business” to begin with. To the contrary, they should function more like a trade union, defending the distribution, and the core devs who create it, against the occasional excesses of PSF management.
I’m going back to the code and the actual community (which, in fact, I had already done 2 weeks before the ban started).
Not my usual style? No. Times change.