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Staff members are employees. They are not elected, nor should they be.
– tchrist
Commented Oct 7, 2019 at 3:32
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@tchrist: Why on earth shouldn't they be?
– Vikki
Commented Oct 7, 2019 at 3:49
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@sean How would that work? Even if you wanted the community to be involved in (or even responsible for) the recruiting process, I don't think it is compatible with important legal requirements (think private information in CVs etc as well as background checks performed by HR). But anyway, if you honestly think they should be, that would be a highly unconventional position where I would expect you to argue why that is your position, rather than the other way around.
– tripleee
Commented Oct 7, 2019 at 4:42
"[...] possibly endangered her in real life [...]" — how do you figure? Is there something I'm overlooking?
– SQB
Commented Oct 7, 2019 at 7:59
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@SQB: death threats for openly being for/against trans is not unknown, and Monica Cellio isn’t an alias or a user name. It’s a name that can be looked up and matched to an address. It took me approximately a minute to get what I presume is that address. Non-specific language is used for a reason, and not just CYA. And according to the article by Thomas Claburn in the theregister.co.uk when asked to confirm that Monica was the mod in question Chipps said SE plans to “even more explicitly cite misgendering users or moderators as a violation”.
– jmoreno
Commented Oct 7, 2019 at 11:45
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youtube.com/watch?v=aeAeL0K86DI ;)
– Gerold Broser
Commented Oct 8, 2019 at 20:12

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