OTW

[branchandroot]

FUCK.

ETA, this time with slightly more eloquence: We are screwed. We are all so fucking screwed. Oh my god, even after she made such a godawful balls-up of the archive for her own personal project, she actually still got elected? Oh my god.

Comments

[seagull2eagle]

Too much backlash after the first kerflunkle of people saying "THE OTW IS WONDERFUL! WE LOVE ALL OUR VOLUNTEERS" and not enough people actually paying attention to what was really *happening*. And, name-recognition.

{sigh}

So much for the great and wonderful archive of our own. Guess I better start backing up all my stuff.

[foxinthestars]

And after she phoned it in (or didn't as the case may be) for so many of the candidate chats and Q&As... Yeah. I wonder if her pet project is a pet project for too many of the voters also, and they didn't look past the shiny to what's actually not dysfunctional. Not how I was hoping that would go...

[ldybastet]

Shit. :(

[scribblesinink]

Your post is a breath of honest fresh air on my network, where most reactions seem to be in the vein of "if I was too critical, I didn't really mean it, sowwy!" which is more disappointing than the election results themselves (those at least weren't really surprising).

I'm not as pessimistic yet as you are, but I do believe we lost the first and major opportunity to start making things better fast. If it happens now, it'll be an uphill battle all the way.

[lilmoka]

I'm worried for the volunteers. I didn't exactly follow the elections, but I know what happened in general and... Yeah, IAWTP.