To address concerns and misinformation, here is the full list of users who were silenced over the past week.
No moderator manually silenced any of them. Quite the opposite: in nearly every case, moderators removed the flag and restored the post.
Another relevant data point: @Narrator is responsible for many of the flags raised on the forum this week, including flags targeting users taking legitimate stances that are neither spam nor rule-breaking. Here is one (of many) examples:
The @Aave account appears to have been inactive for nearly two years, and only logged in again very recently.
Both @ACI and @EzR3aL are the elected moderators and administrators of this Discourse forum, have been active here every day for years, and their administrative rights follow governance decisions (see ARFC below):
It is surprising to us that the proposal to compensate @EzR3aL fairly, after more than a year of unpaid strategic contributions that have increased in both scope and allocated bandwidth, is met with anything other than broad consensus. Even more so when parts of this are being amplified on social media in a way that further harms the Aave brand.
I believe the situation will eventually converge toward consensus and a constructive solution will be found. However, the conduct displayed by @kberg and @simo over the past week has caused lasting reputational damage with a large portion of the community.
Aave Labs has an important role to play in Aave’s future. But not every individual behavior we have seen recently should be normalized or rewarded in the future we build together.