Hi all,
I agree that having me handling/closing that topic was not ideal. Unfortunately we don’t have many more moderators helping review all the flags, that topic was flagged long ago and people were asking why it was hidden. This particular example was due the violation of the OSM Guidelines, from a person who was already creating antagonist/inflammatory topics that are not setting a healthy discussion.
I want to reinforce that in no way this is blocking people to talk about HOT, or disagreeing with HOT policy or actions, people is more than welcome to talk about that and about any other organization, and I personally will never try to silence that.
The @forums-governance is actively looking to have more moderators for the global categories (I’ll open a topic about that), and in a larger moderation team I’ll would have refrained to handle topics like this due conflict of interest concerns.
Cheers.