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I have noticed that for the longest time now, there has been an increasing frequency of content revision discussions done by staff members in private Discord servers. I know this because I've lost track of how many times a staff member or veteran user here has made explicit reference to hashing out a big upgrade thread on Discord.
What bothers me about this is the complete lack of transparency inherent in this. Not everyone has or uses Discord, and you can't get in any specific server without an invite link. Even if you get one and invite people into yours, it'll just be a different server than wherever the "important" conversations are being held. People can always just kick anyone who doesn't agree with them out of their server, or prevent others from coming in in the first place, creating echo chambers. For all we know, half of all our "big upgrades" are built on such echo chambers.
We need more transparency here, and therefore I believe that content revision discussions need to be as public as possible.
What bothers me about this is the complete lack of transparency inherent in this. Not everyone has or uses Discord, and you can't get in any specific server without an invite link. Even if you get one and invite people into yours, it'll just be a different server than wherever the "important" conversations are being held. People can always just kick anyone who doesn't agree with them out of their server, or prevent others from coming in in the first place, creating echo chambers. For all we know, half of all our "big upgrades" are built on such echo chambers.
We need more transparency here, and therefore I believe that content revision discussions need to be as public as possible.