Freenode fallout

[Drew DeVault]

On Fri May 21, 2021 at 9:57 AM EDT, Luc Verhaegen wrote:
> What helps is transparency and accountability, which is something that
> bad elements try to avoid, or have to be very skillful to navigate such
> a setting successfully. Said transparency and accountability was
> apparently lacking in freenode for the past few years, and this seems
> why we hit this wall now.

> Afaict, OFTC has yearly elections, which is not a guarantee to getting
> good results as popularity often gets chosen over good gouvernance, but
> such a system is better than other alternatives.

Regarding the lack of transparency etc on LiberaChat, I agreed with this
point and I made an argument to the LiberaChat staff to release their
bylaws post-haste:

https://libera.chat/bylaws