Thread by @mjg59

If anyone's wondering how the community feedback process for Freenode's proposed policy changes is going, the channel is currently discussing the nature of property rights with the hypothetical of the government giving your house to someone else as reparations

Ah, we've now moved on to the stage where the new Freenode owner starts complaining about cancel culture

Ongoing discussion of antifa being a terrorist group, well managed community feedback forum this

Ooh, random unsupported allegations of people being paedophiles, we're getting the full experience

Someone identifies as an attack helicopter, because of fucking course

This is a fucking cesspool

Someone just dropped the "The US will be majority non-white by 2043" talking point. This is, I want to reiterate, the official Freenode community feedback channel for proposed policy changes.

I should be clear that there are also people earnestly attempting to explain that these policy changes are not what the projects that Freenode nominally exists for the benefit of want. It's just being lost under a wave of unmoderated bullshit.

Current status: op refusing to take any action against someone who refers to someone else as "her", including the scare quotes

Apparently '"her" lunch' could refer to someone else's lunch which she stole

Ah good there's the 18 words

By which I mean the 14 words, obviously

Ops now ignoring the use of homophobic slurs

Channel has now been switched to a mode where only channel ops can see what other people are saying, and everyone else can only see what ops say. The person who was using homophobic slurs earlier has been opped.

Whoops, sorry, no, he was the one being transphobic, the homophobe was someone else

The channel has now been closed by Andrew Lee, with an assertion that a transparent policy feedback mechanism will be available at some point in the future. No commentary has been provided on how existing feedback was factored into the decision making process.