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> Which is to say, they think it's inherently wrong to put people on the mod team who disagree with their political views, when they don't even moderate a space that's about politics.

My reading of that is they think it's inherently wrong to add people to the mod team because they disagree with their political views. Which seems reasonable to me.





Are you saying moderators should be chosen based on their political beliefs?

> Which seems reasonable to me.

Surely the SC had other criteria in mind as well.


Maybe, but it seems that might have been their deciding factor:

> despite the specific candidate being rejected as unsuitable by the moderation team, and agreement from SC that at least some of the reasons discussed were disqualifying




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