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Our admins are all trusted, long-time users in good standing. We regularly browse, comment, and post on our main accounts. You post and chat with us daily as comrades, and we value all of you. You may not recognize the usernames on our admin accounts because we regularly swap the alts used for admin privileges. This is why you'll see really old or unused alt accounts as well as really new accounts on the admin team.
This really makes it impossible to build trust in the admins. The admins are vetted by who, other admins? They might be "in good standing" but there are users in this site who are in good standing who I wouldn't want in charge.
Take SalvadorWALL_E for example. This account was sitting dormant for 2 years, got promoted to admin in the middle of a heated struggle session, pissed some people off, then was purged. Was this an existing admin who wanted deflect heat? A trusted user who got promoted, immediately fucked up and got demoted? A trusted user who got promoted, immediately fucked up, and is going to continue being an admin on another account?
I understand that it's for opsec and I'm not telling you to stop using alts, but I'm not giving the benefit of the doubt to accounts with little-to-no history.
- There are two categories of Admins, those that have been Admins for over a year and those that are new.
  The new ones were nominated by members of our marginalized communities to help diversify the admin team.
  The specific admin you mentioned was an old old admin, that had left and then returned. At this moment the team is the same it has been the past 2 years with the addition of the aforementioned new additions.
  Going forward any admin that stepped down, and has been inactive for over a year will not be permitted to return, and that any new admins will be those nominated by users and then thouroughly vetted and onboarded to prevent this situation from reoccuring
  
  Completely unrelated to the struggle session and more of a curiosity: how are admins vetted? Is it like a lets-meet-in-person thing or its digital equivalent? How do you know that you really know who is behind the handle?
  
  I can't be specific but it is 100% digital
  
  We just send them down to the main office and let Mike from HR brief them on their extra responsibility. It's generally not a hassle, except some of the wfh guys who have to catch a plane out to Langley and then you gotta get into scheduling and it's a whole thing.
  edit: I've been informed that I should let you know I was doing a "bit" as we fellow leftists like to do. Josh around.. Unrelated, but do you know of any cool POC community organisers? I've got a business proposition for them. And uh down with the US, fight the power, screw the man!

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