Hey. In spite of the reservations I had about what it doesn't say I've decided I can't justify not supporting what the open letter you guys wrote does say.

I've signed. Please feel free to add the ex-diamond status indicator to my signature.

Done, thanks. There's definitely things we didn't talk about in there, but ultimately it had to be a compromise that as many people as possible felt they could put their name to. If we'd included more about (lgbtq, international sites, religion sites - pick your issue), we'd have started alienating people who generally agree but don't want to put their name to specific issues.

Ya, I get that.

Personally I'm frustrated that that the amount of total noise is only going to distract from why Monica had a concern in the first place, but I get the limitations this particular letter is working under.

Please do not cross link or otherwise add visibility to any other letters present or future hosted under the same site though, eh?

Not trying to put them down, just saying that with links to the domain being mentioned is support of a specific letter it would look bad if it seems like we're supporting something we don't.

I'd have a similar beef with that as I do with SE in the first place ;-)

@Caleb Not sure what you're getting at there. We posted this on Meta because... well, it was always meant to be published publicly, and there's not really any other place.

Or are you thinking about what happens if I start copying people's signatures to other letters?

Sorry, no the linking and mentions from meta is not what I was getting at.

Somewhere I saw a request to link the Lavender letter from the front page of dearstackexchange.com.

I was just requesting that each open letter be treated as a container without cross-pollinating them.

At least not on that domain, obviously you and others may way want to link to both from meta and of course I think that's fine.

@ArtOfCode That too ;-)

Ah, yeah, I saw that one. No plans to do that - it probably could be done in a way that doesn't imply support from everyone who signed one, but it's not necessary to do it and the effort it would take to do it right just... isn't worth it. The Lavender letter is linked in its own answer, so they both have sufficient visibility already.

This website likely isn't going to last long, anyway - it'll be up for a month, maybe two, while this dies down, then we either repurpose the domain or let it die

Savvy, over and out (and thanks again for the work setting that up).

Cheers!