With regard to mending fences with the GLBT segement of DU

[closeupready]

I wanted to cross-post this here, as it's unclear to me if Skinner is still monitoring the Mending Fences thread he started in GLBT.

Lionness Priyanka, in post #10 of the now locked "Mending Fences my ass", made a perfect suggestion for making progress towards making DU more GLBT-inclusive.

If you consider mending fences with the GLBT community of any big importance, you simply MUST have openly GLBT mods on the board, in SIGNIFICANT numbers/percentages.

With all due respect, Skinner, anything less than that indicates to me that you really do not care - talking the talk but not walking the walk, as people said in the 60's. And to be honest, you don't HAVE to care (frankly, many in the Democratic Party itself don't care about the GLBT community, who's to say you are one of them or you aren't? I would never be so arrogant to make assumptions, been burned once too often), I just personally would like to see you actually do something for once, rather than give yet another song-and-dance about how it pains you that GLBT members here are hurt, and this and that, and I really do love you all, yadda yadda. DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT, PLEASE.

And if you are being fair, you know I have been supportive of you and your self-assessments all through these years, even when valuable members were being TS'ed and when bullshit was hitting the fan - I was always loyal to you and the board. Either I've been stupid or else perhaps too willing to assume the best of everyone.

Posted in complete sincerity and in good faith.

[Skinner]

1. We have a number of openly gay moderators this term, as we do every term.

If more of our LGBT members wish to serve as moderators, my advice is to apply next time we do a mod switch. Once we move into DU3, it'll be even easier for anyone to become a moderator -- no confidentiality agreements or other annoying hoops to jump through.

[closeupready]

2. okay, thanks. Looking forward to this super DU3, lol. Do you have an ETA

as to when DU3 goes live? :)

[Skinner]

3. I would launch it tomorrow if I could.

But I can't.

At this point, I'm really hoping to launch by the end of summer. That is ambitious, and there might still be some rough edges. But I'm really hopeful we can do it.