The 'agreement' does not involve agreeing to reinstate her, and while claiming to apologize for "making mistakes", counterfactually goes on to say "we invited Ms. Cellio to apply for possible reinstatement [says nothing about as a moderator] on all six sites following our new reinstatement process.Ms. Cellio expressed concerns about the new process and has not applied."
People who have remained inexplicably silent throughout: new SO CEO Prasanth Chandrasekar, and Joel Spolsky.
Hiding is not leadership.
Monica was a valued and respected contributor and it is sad to see yet more missteps as SO pursues monetization and profitability. A large number of SO users still say she should be reinstated. Management could yet fix their mistake if they really wanted to.
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[ 2.3 ms ] story [ 12.0 ms ] threadPeople who have remained inexplicably silent throughout: new SO CEO Prasanth Chandrasekar, and Joel Spolsky. Hiding is not leadership.
The SO user reaction was near-unanimous rejection: in one day alone the post got -533 votes; that might be the record for a one-day downvote: https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/340906/update-an-ag...
54 moderators have resigned over the matter: https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/333965/firing-mods-... . And there's still the issue of forced relicensing, including asserting the right to do that retrospectively before the CoC change.
Monica was a valued and respected contributor and it is sad to see yet more missteps as SO pursues monetization and profitability. A large number of SO users still say she should be reinstated. Management could yet fix their mistake if they really wanted to.