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The thing that strikes me the most about Sara's message is that there's no clear "I was wrong" statement. Sure, there's hints of this ("In hindsight, it would have been preferable to reach consensus through more research earlier[...]"), but nowhere in the blog post can we read in clear words that she did make a huge mistake.

When public figures (the good ones) make the wrong call, it’s admirable when they admit it publicly and share what they are doing to right the wrongs.

Then please do. Every "we messed up" messages we have read so far were always posted by other staff members, but never from Sara. If you find it admirable when people admit they were wrong, now is the time to make an admirable move and post about the mistakes you personally made in the last few months, and how those mistakes and their implications will be used in the future to be better at your job.

The posts by Teresa and the interactions we had with the other staff members felt more genuine that this blog post, at least in my opinion. The message felt more ... raw, more like "here's a mistake we made, and here's how we intend to fix it". This blog post feels more like an embellishment campaign that it trying to move the dust under the carpet and act as if nothing ever happened.

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You mentioned as a comment the following:

Yaakov and I spoke this morning about who would be the best person to post the Meta post. My thoughts were that because of the decision made, and who it affected, it would be a bit before a post from me was well received here

I think you would find your time on Meta.SE significantly more pleasant if you did indeed owned up to your mistakes here. During the Monica events, we saw your interview on that other site, some comments here and there, and some blog posts, but never posts on Meta.SE. Well, excluding the agreement post and an answer to the moderator's use of the featured tag.

It feels very much like you don't want to have anything to do with the community, while blogging about how much the community is important. Yaakov's post are well received in part because he's interacting with us on a constant basis. I will be honest here, maybe your first messages here won't receive many upvotes because people are resentful of what happened in the last year. Maybe. But if you admit your faults, lay out a plan to learn from them, and start being part of the community, and not only talking about the community, then people will eventually come around and respond positively to your messages.

Everyone can make mistakes, but it's what you do after that determines what type of person you are.

The thing that strikes me the most about Sara's message is that there's no clear "I was wrong" statement. Sure, there's hints of this ("In hindsight, it would have been preferable to reach consensus through more research earlier[...]"), but nowhere in the blog post can we read in clear words that she did make a huge mistake.

When public figures (the good ones) make the wrong call, it’s admirable when they admit it publicly and share what they are doing to right the wrongs.

Then please do. Every "we messed up" messages we have read so far were always posted by other staff members, but never from Sara. If you find it admirable when people admit they were wrong, now is the time to make an admirable move and post about the mistakes you personally made in the last few months, and how those mistakes and their implications will be used in the future to be better at your job.

The posts by Teresa and the interactions we had with the other staff members felt more genuine that this blog post, at least in my opinion. The message felt more ... raw, more like "here's a mistake we made, and here's how we intend to fix it". This blog post feels more like an embellishment campaign that it trying to move the dust under the carpet and act as if nothing ever happened.

The thing that strikes me the most about Sara's message is that there's no clear "I was wrong" statement. Sure, there's hints of this ("In hindsight, it would have been preferable to reach consensus through more research earlier[...]"), but nowhere in the blog post can we read in clear words that she did make a huge mistake.

When public figures (the good ones) make the wrong call, it’s admirable when they admit it publicly and share what they are doing to right the wrongs.

Then please do. Every "we messed up" messages we have read so far were always posted by other staff members, but never from Sara. If you find it admirable when people admit they were wrong, now is the time to make an admirable move and post about the mistakes you personally made in the last few months, and how those mistakes and their implications will be used in the future to be better at your job.

The posts by Teresa and the interactions we had with the other staff members felt more genuine that this blog post, at least in my opinion. The message felt more ... raw, more like "here's a mistake we made, and here's how we intend to fix it". This blog post feels more like an embellishment campaign that it trying to move the dust under the carpet and act as if nothing ever happened.

Edit

You mentioned as a comment the following:

Yaakov and I spoke this morning about who would be the best person to post the Meta post. My thoughts were that because of the decision made, and who it affected, it would be a bit before a post from me was well received here

I think you would find your time on Meta.SE significantly more pleasant if you did indeed owned up to your mistakes here. During the Monica events, we saw your interview on that other site, some comments here and there, and some blog posts, but never posts on Meta.SE. Well, excluding the agreement post and an answer to the moderator's use of the featured tag.

It feels very much like you don't want to have anything to do with the community, while blogging about how much the community is important. Yaakov's post are well received in part because he's interacting with us on a constant basis. I will be honest here, maybe your first messages here won't receive many upvotes because people are resentful of what happened in the last year. Maybe. But if you admit your faults, lay out a plan to learn from them, and start being part of the community, and not only talking about the community, then people will eventually come around and respond positively to your messages.

Everyone can make mistakes, but it's what you do after that determines what type of person you are.

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Laf
Laf
  • 2.8k
  • 19
  • 19

The thing that strikes me the most about Sara's message is that there's no clear "I was wrong" statement. Sure, there's hints of this ("In hindsight, it would have been preferable to reach consensus through more research earlier[...]"), but nowhere in the blog post can we read in clear words that she did make a huge mistake.

When public figures (the good ones) make the wrong call, it’s admirable when they admit it publicly and share what they are doing to right the wrongs.

Then please do. Every "we messed up" messages we have read so far were always posted by other staff members, but never from Sara. If you find it admirable when people admit they were wrong, now is the time to make an admirable move and post about the mistakes you personally made in the last few months, and how those mistakes and their implications will be used in the future to be better at your job.

The posts by Teresa and the interactions we had with the other staff members felt more genuine that this blog post, at least in my opinion. The message felt more ... raw, more like "here's a mistake we made, and here's how we intend to fix it". This blog post feels more like an embellishment campaign that it trying to move the dust under the carpet and act as if nothing ever happened.