[FORMAL COMPLAINT] - Case 00

Near Community and nodes
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Hello Creatives Community,

Thank you for your patience with our response.

Keep in mind we are fellow community members doing our best to support the cultivation of a healthy Creatives DAO community space.

We are all walking together in our learning processes.

First I will share the steps we took to mediate this conflict to embody transparency and encourage open conversations around how to engage with conflict in the most productive and regenerative of ways.

  1. We read through all comments on the forum.
  2. We identified main issues and complaints.
  3. We shared our findings and interpretations internally, doing our best to give all parties involved equal and fair consideration.
  4. We identified if the issues were going against the community guidelines / out of the range for us as community moderators.
  5. We took initiative to remedy the most urgent conflict points (returning wallet access).
  6. We looked for solutions and offered suggestions for preventing similar conflict in the future.
  7. We had @hevertonharieno and @ted.iv translate the Portuguese accounts shared and share with the rest of the moderation team their findings.
  8. We took our time and much care coming to conclusions.

Now our conclusions from our findings:

We have concluded that while Metaverse DAO & Gambiarra DAO had many structural and communication points of difficulty that contributed to this conflict, the @thephilosopher at times leveraged his knowledge about the ecosystem to sway and sometimes belittle his teammates, most often his women teammates.

Solutions

  1. Consult with a moderator - We would like to clarify with all members in the ecosystem that if you are unsure about something, feel that you are not able to make your own decisions, feel undervalued, confused etc - please ask the moderators. We value all DAO leaders and the work they do to teach newcomers, yet we acknowledge that leaders can hold unequal power. Therefore we want to remind everyone entering NEAR that they have neutral and safe places to communicate with the moderators
  2. We would like to respectfully ask @thephilosopher to please step down from council on the DAOs he is currently in and pause the initiation of his new DAO for 2 months. We propose that it is acceptable for you to still operate within the ecosystem as a contributor but not as a council at this time.
  3. We would like to propose that @thephilosopher reflects on these happenings and shares with us these ways in which he plans to re-enter the community with different actions so this harm does not get repeated.
  4. We remind all DAOs that they always have ability to exercise their rights to remove council members perceived to be causing harm.
  5. Creatives Moderators would like to offer further support to Metaverse DAO & Gambiarra DAO - We believe with some more support Metaverse & Gambiarra would have been able to avoid some of this conflict. Therefore we would like to offer your communities direct support to help you move forward if you would like. Feel free to reach out to us.
  6. We remind all community members to hold themselves and others accountable in caring ways.
  7. We ask everyone to continue to practise ‘pragmatic optimism’ in our interactions with anyone on the internet, that is, give individuals the chance to prove themselves but exercise caution, especially when funds are involved. (Thanks to @mecsbecs for these words & concepts.)

Thanks for everyone who has given input. There is a lot of work to be done in these two communities and across the wider creative community to ensure this perceived power imbalance doesn’t impede our work as a community to actively decentralize authority. May we all move forward with better understandings of how to truly collaborate together.

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