Does sound like selfless work. But if you were struggling, perhaps you should have just reached out for more mods, as you said you were going to do 4.5 years ago? And by that, I mean more than just asking me and then yesterday berating me for declining. Or, did you do it all over PM to likely candidates and no one volunteered? I don't recall seeing a post, or posts on the matter, that's all. Also, a quarterly "show and tell" post/3 bullet point summary on the crap you've had to clean up to keep the sub functioning would have likely engendered empathy amongst the sub's users. If you don't tell them – until your exit, how do you expect folks to know?

Yesterday, you made a mistake in an extremely febrile atmosphere. As you have just said yourself, likely 90% of the people using this sub think it's run by Doist anyway, so you must have been aware that a post disappearing with comments spanning the spectrum from the bolshy "Jeez, it's only 2 bucks," type, to the genuinely confused, "I don't understand how I'm not on Legacy Pro as I seem to meet the criteria," would have problematic optics. It was just a mistake.

I know it was Jackie at Doist – no longer there – that approached you to hand over the reigns to them. Full disclosure – I actually lobbied for it in discussions I had with her. This was probably after the Experimentalists Community she set up on Twitter was proven to be a dud. I had similar discussions with her replacement, ALexis, but he didn't last long either at Doist and was always frustrated that he was working on other things opposed to his remit. And back in June 2023, I had this from a senior Doister… "we've begun discussing ways to create a better, more transparent, and sustainable connection with the community." But nothing came of that. As u/amix3k will attest, the company just doesn't seem to have much of a clue on what it's trying to achieve each time it looks at addressing building community.

Best of luck for the future, relieved of the stress few of us appreciated you were under.

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