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Leeward Bound
@leewardbound
does this channel have rules or bylaws? earnest question is there some (written or unwritten) standard? is there a threshold at which one could be banned or removed from the channel? are there moderators beyond @basche42? regardless if it's 1 mod or multiple, are they following some kind of code or just winging it? by contrast, does this channel have ethos or goals? is there some kind of content we explicitly want here? it's a pickle bc recently the definition of "left" has been called into question, so now i gotta wonder, is there an accepted meaning here? or is this space for anyone who self-identifies as left, whatever that means to them? but mostly i ask bc recently ive noticed what i consider to be anti-left content (not inclusive, anticommunist, or pro-liberalism) so im curious about what we intend to tolerate here, and if this is a space i want to participate in or a space i want to leave quietly to be clear, my personal preference would be strong leadership of a few people making strict rules.
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$degen ¢ummunist
@degencummunist.eth
As a mod around here and in the OPs group chat, imma go out on a limb here and use my authority for the first time to declare; We go by The Pirates Code (as written by David Graeber in Pirate Enlightenment) Book here >https://a.co/d/j8tcFRp< https://media.tenor.com/aeV80XD4CSgAAAAC/guidlines-pirates-of-the-caribbean
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rathermercurial
@rathermercurial.eth
As far as unilateral decisions go,that's a pretty good one lol. If we were to consider some community guidelines like these, what sort of deliberation and consensus mechanism do you think would be useful?
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$degen ¢ummunist
@degencummunist.eth
Yea this’ll be the distinguishing factor between us and other channels is well thought out methods of deliberation and conflict resolution will be key. Things are ez peezee rn but that could flip in a moments notice👀 It’d be nice to figure out the new channel tools like @modbot to delegate some responsibility off of bascheybebe! I can tell he has a real life with responsibilities outside of here. 🥺 🫶
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Leeward Bound
@leewardbound
hot take - after participating in many leftist or anarchist spaces, or similarly flat-hierarchy spaces, i am a firm believer that nothing kills a small or medium organization/group/community faster than a lack of a strong leadership authority willing to invest passion and sweat equity, and to declare a common direction for a unified vision i am fundamentally in favor of a dictatorship of the proletariat, at the state level, but im certain that in practice trying to spread decision-making power too thinly is a fatal error, and organizations with less than 10k members are probably strongest when aligned behind a single figurehead despite the risks of a populist authoritarian, it's clear to me that strong leader is an asset more than a liability - really imo the ideal system just allows the masses checks and balances on the leaders power (eg the ability to stop a CEO from dismantling the business and selling it for scrap), without hampering their latitude to act in most cases
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