Please enumerate on a public page the list of users who are authorized to declare official statements and make actions on behalf of the Delta Chat Team.
(In reply to objectionable actions perceived from time to time)
roles, moderators etc. are marked already today, e.g. by a shield beside the name in this forum. but this does not necessarily help as people still act individually and situational. see Community Standards: Maintainers and Responsibilities for the bigger picture.
if in doubt, please refer to Community Standards: Reporting and Responses.
If you think that whoever you make a moderator is officially authorized to make statements and publish decisions in the name of the Delta Chat project, I would ask you to state this on the website. That’s all I am asking. Some forums hire moderators to deal with abuse for example, so not only contracted personnel can have these roles.
A friendly nudge that this topic is still not solved.
I am not sure what the objectionable actions were, so this is not a commnt on them.
The team is a fairly small group of people with fairly informal governance. It does not seem to have as much by way of clearly-defined roles, powers and responsibilities, of the sort that are more often present in larger organizations. Even where formal roles exist, informal social dynamics control how they are used. Social accountability, where your actions affect the role others accord you, is a strong influence.
So the clearly-defined group you are asking to have set out in black and white doesn’t really exist. The division is fuzzy and mutable. This has advantages as well as disadvantages. It’s a bit of a do-ocracy, though actions that don’t have broad support will face pushback.
I’m not saying that the formal rules are irrelevant; the community has chosen them. But no community is wholly bound by formal rules, and it may choose not to have many.
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