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Larry Garfield

@joepie91 Counterpoint: the mods need to be sufficiently transparent and open so that work can be done.

I once had a Community Working Group lead tell me, after they expelled someone very popular on seemingly flimsy grounds to heavy backlash, "there's more going on you don't know."

The tell us! Something. Anything. If you actively hide info, people will fill it in with their least charitable imagination.

Privacy should be protected, but give *something*.

@Crell I would broadly agree with that; with the caveat that there's a big difference between "some details on why they were banned" and "an exhaustive justification to the satisfaction of the listener".

The former is definitely a reasonable thing to expect (and, IMO, crucially important to teach communities to do more self-regulation too), but the latter is not, because that is where the "expertise and context needed to fully understand the conclusion" comes in.

@joepie91 Oh, absolutely. It's a non-trivial balancing act, both for the mods and the community.