@Anonymous great post! I'll comment on a few things specifically:
@Anonymous wrote:
Your [...]"bad apple" [...is] doing a task that no one would really want to do. But it's important for the organization of the forum. [...] And at the end of the day...this is just a low level, budget cell phone service. Not a nuclear reactor. [...] ALL of us, from New in town up to Oracle are just fellow customers. ALL of us, except to a certain degree the Oracles, have no obligation or need to be all the flowery wording you attribute in your utopia. As long as we're not violating the rules of conduct, we can do, think, say whatever we like.
On that last sentence: yes, to a point. And when the rules of conduct have been violated, the oracles have the power to move threads or posts into a hidden area, as well as the ability to edit posts to remove things go against the published community guidelines such as posting personal info, trying to sell things, publicly post referral codes, etc.
The thing that sparked this whole "Impeachment" witch hunt was another power the oracles have, which is to move topics they feel are not related to Public Mobile into the lounge. This softer standard may not be well documented by Public Mobile but it's the culture and defacto standards that have evolved over time in the community. The more senior among us that have been around here a while have helped shape that, for the better or the worse. I am going to go on record here and say I was the one that asked @ShawnC13 to move @88cranston's post to the Lounge, and I stand by it. If you want to impeach someone, impeach me Mr. Cranston. I can't believe what a big deal is being made of this. What a waste of time.
@Anonymous wrote:
There is one senior Mayor that stepped down from Oracle themselves (or that was the spin anyway 🙂 ).
@88cranston I think @Anonymous is referring to me. I was one of the original oracles. For the record, there was no spin involved. I told Jeremy (the former community manager) that I wanted to step down, he tried to talk me out of it, but I stuck by my decision. For where my head was a the time, it wasn't worth the amount of pressure I was putting on myself to always be around and always be among the very most helpful. Aside from missing out on getting sneak peeks of upcoming things, I regret nothing about the decision, and the reduced communtiy reward was 100% worth the trade off for me presonally. Happy to just be a "mayor".
I'm tempted to drop one of Mr. Cranston's signature "left the conversation" lines, but I'm pretty sure I'll be checking back out of morbid curioisty.
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