Be Less Dysfunctional, OTW

[extrapenguin]

Everyone on my reading list has probably already linked to chestnut_pod's Be More Democratic, Be More Autocratic, OTW, which is a look at the structural problems of the OTW and how to fix them. The comments section also has a lot of interesting discussion, especially on the horrendously dysfunctional procedures of OTW's PAC, which is the committee responsible for handling abuse reports.

Today I looked at fail_fandomanon on my lunch break, as I sometimes do, and lo and behold, a former PAC volunteer (who apparently used to be the person responsible for dealing with the reports of actual CSEM posted to the archive before being suspended because someone thought they were behind the CSEM spam attacks because of ???) de-anoned and posted two comments quoting OTW-internal questions on the protocols for volunteer suspension (also includes background on the CSEM attack and judgement of the current board members) and whether PAC members get to see Legal's response to their questions (apparently advice from Legal is confidential to the very PAC volunteers they're advising.)


So apparently Legal is some kind of fucked-up shadow board? I have no idea WTF is going on there.

Comments

[fiachairecht]

I commented to someone else a few days ago that it was always fairly obvious just looking at ... anything ... OTW did/said that it had to be pretty questionable internally but the past couple weeks have just been a constant sting of 'Wow! even more horrifying than I'd thought!' and, uh, it sure has kept getting worse! It's actually kind of mind-boggling to me that they've managed to go on as long as they have if this is how they (don't) function - apparently inertia takes you far >.>

[annathecrow]

Thanks for the chestnut_pod post link, I haven't seen that one yet and I'm extremely impressed by the analysis.

[extrapenguin]

Yeah. I thought it was just immense inertia, mainly, but it's been a steady freefall to the bottom of the abyss. I guess the sheer inertia will keep AO3 up for A Time, but idk how soon the rest of the org will start crumbling down.

[extrapenguin]

Yw! It's one of the more insightful takes I've seen on the situation.

[china_shop]

Thanks for the FFA links. Ughhhhhhhhhh. /o\

[extrapenguin]

Yeah, it's ... yikes.

BTW, how goes your backing up of your AO3 account? It's not going to go down in flames soon, but I figure I might as well not put all my eggs in one basket.

[china_shop]

Haha, have I even started? Nope. But I did just download some more recent works to my harddrive.

Apparently squidgeworld lets you import up to 25 works directly by URL, including from AO3, so that might be an answer?