The Regional Stability Squad is continuing its discussions, but were slowed down over the last few weeks by members' offline lives as well as several moderation incidents that the RSS had to take time to weigh in on. However, we feel we have made significant progress in fleshing out a governing body to be proposed to the community in the future, and have also started getting into more specifics regarding a rules redraft and the moderation philosophy behind them, and we're welcome to any feedback or questions about anything that's in this document (or any area the RSS is involved in regardless).
To reduce the work on my part in typing out a summary and to hopefully make our thoughts more readable, the RSS has approved a different format. This is a copy of the internal document we're using to keep track of where we stand on discussions as of March 21st, when the vote to release this summary began. Because it's in list format that would be tedious to replicate on the forums, we're providing it as a Google Doc here:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1BKj7bETGbww55OzTyZ63b-U9025nhjuYSiwRxPjRmow/edit?usp=sharingThis document does not cover discussions regarding recent moderation incidents involving Argin or Alien Zombie. An official report regarding the temp-ban of Argin has been released
here, and one regarding the permanent banning of Alien Zombie will be forthcoming as soon as possible.
And again, we welcome any comments, questions, or thoughts about our discussions so far. There is no wrong comment or question, so please don't be afraid to share even if you don't agree with anything here. If we're off-course in any way, we need to know that and will appreciate the community telling us so.
-Wintermoot on behalf of the Regional Stability Squad