Dear Stack Exchange, Inc.
I'm totally out of the loop about what this drama is about, and I'll stay that way.<p>These are unpaid community moderators. They are essentially volunteers doing this work because they want to. So let's ponder to ourselves and relate this to our own lives, what kind of relationship do we have with the organizations and people we do volunteer work with?<p>If you're at a point where you're so dissatisfied that you're writing a sprawling open letter, a manifesto of your dissatisfaction, going as far as buying a domain and setting up a website to publicize how upset you are, just to complain to a place that you volunteer at, you know, maybe it's time to just let it go. Maybe don't volunteer there. StackExchange isn't even a charity, it's a private for-profit company.<p>At the end of the day, people visiting the site just did a quick Google search and wanted their questions answered for free. They are generally unwilling to pay for this service. If StackExchange didn't exist something very similar would take its place. None of the general public needs to hear about whatever moderator drama took place, even if something criminal happened. It's not our problem.<p>The users don't actually implicitly value what the moderators do. So if the moderators aren't happy, they should do something else with their valuable time.