Yes, it was sneaky. That is part of why it worked as well as it did. Although it risked some false positives (catching good, active janitors who happened to be out of contact with the site during the window), the alternative had greater risk of false negatives (alerting inactive janitors to jump in and request continued membership). Given previous attempts to cull inactive members from privileged groups, I think the level of sneakiness was appropriate.

Also, given the number and activity level of those who did respond in time, it was decided that no second chances would be given to those who missed the time window. This was not so much a reflection on those who missed the window, as it was that we had sufficient janitors and we don't want to add more at this time, even if the sample of janitors that remained was obtained somewhat at random rather than strictly on merit, and thus not as fair as desired.

Privileged access is, not surprisingly, a privilege. Loss of privilege requires little justification, perhaps unfortunately. In some ways we would prefer to have good reason for removing privileges (in some ways, not). Privileged membership had previously been granted sometimes with too little care, guidance, and oversight. This means that some people will be losing privileges without damning evidence that they need to lose the privilege.

There has recently been a shift in attention to policy; I complained about some long-standing shifts away from policy and pushed to get responses and found that much of the silence in response to my previous complaints had been silent agreement rather than apathy or silent disagreement and this resulted in several people pushing for changes. A shake-up among janitors is one result of that.

I'm sorry that you missed the opportunity to remain in janitors, jeffa. But we're going to keep with our decision to not give second chances in this case. Thank you for your years of service, they were appreciated.

- tye        

In reply to Re^3: How do janitors get fired? (sneaky) by tye
in thread How do janitors get fired? by Anonymous Monk

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