Magnify Mentoring seems great, but my understanding is it’s bottlenecked by the number of available mentors - an issue that a more general Slack space wouldn’t have.

Im not sure if I missed a link or a quote somewhere in the comments, but are you able to say what the defamatory statements were?

As I was reading this I thought that earnestness was clearly the right word for what you’re discussing. Your argument against it, which just boils down to it sounding cheesy, didn’t dissuade me of that view. I think its fine to just own that the value you care about has kinda cheesy connotations, rather than trying to leverage a less accurate word that doesn’t have baggage you dislike. Being earnest is great!

With the list of projects, it looks like most of them are launched or soft launched and so don’t require further assistance?

That assumes their level of ‘public leader-ness’ is fixed. You might prefer to have no one trying to represent EA publicly than to have people doing it sub-optimally.

I’m assuming part of it is that they didn’t want to bias other people’s recollections who may not have been spoken to, but that’s a moot point now with this article.

My interpretation of the refusal was that the investigation hadn’t got to hearing all that information yet.

Surely directly violating the code of conduct you explicitly agreed to is an auto-ban for the next conference? I’d reserve warnings for things that are negative behaviour but not explicitly prohibited

Could you say more about the disconnect between promo and reality?

It makes sense to me - are you hitting on a given woman because you’re into them specifically, or just because you’re like ’woman: ✅, EA: ✅’