STALIN–“Comrade Molotov–the most dedicated to our cause. He should give his life for the cause of the party.”

MOLOTOV–Coming to the speaker’s tribune completely admits his mistakes before the Central Committee, but he stated that he is and will always be a faithful disciple of Stalin.

STALIN–(interrupting Molotov). This is nonsense. I have no students at all. We are all students of the great Lenin.

VOICE FROM THE FLOOR–We need to elect Comrade Stalin as the General Secretary of the Central Committee of the CPSU and Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR.

STALIN–No! I am asking that you relieve me of the two posts!

-Speech by Stalin at the Plenum of the Central Committee, CPSU, October 16, 1952.

Get back to your post, soldier.

I see absolutely no need for this @CARCOSA@hexbear.net. This is just adding fuel to a very silly fire. Granted, it didn't need to be started but also it's very very silly. It would also be very very silly if we lose the top admin every single time something doesn't go smoothly. You probably feel bleh right now, but push onwards and that feel will pass.

+1 reject the resignation

I move Carcosa be reinstated immediately as there was no vote on this decision.

Stalin's first resignation

Comrades! we should all unanimously ask comrade @CARCOSA@hexbear.net to again be head admin!

@CARCOSA@hexbear.net is the most normal person out of all mods and admins, the site would be much worse without their levelheadedness

@CARCOSA@hexbear.net We luv U

I think this was the first time I've seen a problem with how the site was being managed, so that's a pretty good track record overall.

I think it would be a shame to lose a historically quite good admin over this.

Carcosa rn

Logging in to deny Carcosa's resignation.

~unless~ ~they~ ~really~ ~want~ ~to~ ~I~ ~guess~ ^I^ ^dunno^ ~:(~

I also really DO NOT want Carcosa to resign 😬😬😬😬😬

Repeating other sentiments about Carcosa being level headed

I think self crit at most rather than resignation or stepping back from decision making over 1 "bad" decision. Seems very impulsive considering how many good/correct decisions were made over the last 4 years which easily could have been inflection points to losing the balance of intersectional Marxist interests and degrading the community into a state of decline.

Based on the last 4 years believe Carcosa should stay an admin and stay in decision making.

considering all the horrible personal insults that were lodged. hexbear doesnt deserve Carcosa.

@CARCOSA@hexbear.net come back!

In light of Carcosa's statement it's clear my reaction in the megathread was based on a misunderstanding concerning Carcosa's doomed but valiant effort to instill some human values into the rest of lemmy, it unfortunately backfired and me and others uncharitably assumed the worst, so I publicly apologize for that

Paranoia and a lack of trust clearly won the day and to my shame I aided in that, but I hope Carcosa rethinks their decision and once more takes their rightful place at the helm of this experiment in leftist forum-building

I want to throw my hat in here and say that CARCOSA has been an exemplary admin in all of my interactions with them. Always responsive to problems and issues, always willing to hear feedback, and continually supportive of events on Hextube; their stickying of movie threads on the home page has been instrumental in establishing a consistent userbase there. The very fact that CARCOSA does not seek to be admin is precisely why they must be one.

CARCOSA, come back!

Yes. Full support for the main admin

I posted my response in the new ~~struggle~~discussionthread
Carcosa please do not go. Unless it's for your own sake, but don't go because you feel like you did something wrong.

I've had my criticisms of the way this was handled and of the behaviour of some mods in response, but I think it's a real shame that Carcosa seems to feel the need to step away. Their effort here doesn't go unrecognised and I hope they'll be back, when they're ready.

It really feels like we've lost one the people who was actually willing to talk to the community, does self-crit, and even admidst the storm was consistently willing to engage. Exactly the sort of person who should continue being one of the admin and mod team.

Oh there's a thread about this here also. Yes I vote to reject Carcosa's resignation also.

were you guys mean to CARCOSA??

I support the restoration of our Admin and the suppression of the revisionist-factionalist anti-mod group.

Expressing love for an Admain idk sounds kinda typical for you authoritarian loving tankis nah they're cool please don't step down jf you think that's what we(???) wamt cos afaict it's the exact opposite

I agree. They clearly were trying their best to balance different interests, and were unfortunately put in an unwinnable position. Their leadership has been a big net positive to the site.

amber whataboutism

I disagree with the Inciting Decision, but even more strongly disagree with Carcosa stepping down over it. They have shown time and again that they're an excellent leader and admin, and the site will be diminished if we lose that. A mea culpa about how the decision was made is fine I guess, and self-crit is always great for anyone with any power, but losing one of our most competent and caring admins is not going to make this better.

THEY HAVE RESPONDED!

Throwing my hat in for not resigning. The situation was messy but your handling of it and overall respectful tone and willingness to engage in good faith is what good leadership is. The site needs that and it is in situations like this where it is proved.

Please do not resign @CARCOSA@hexbear.net. My brief interaction with you earlier this year was overwhelmingly positive and meant a lot to me because I think this site and the associated cytube mean more to me than I care to admit.

Additionally, these recent decisions seemed to be the initiative of multiple users, and you simply presented their will to us - I feel we have not heard the full story.

Thank you for all you've done here and I genuinely hope you will reconsider in favor of continuing.

While this wasn't the best handled struggle sesh in recent times it ultimately wasn't the worst we've had. No major harm done or need for Carcosa or anyone else to go. Except that user who may be a mod on their 20th alt, wtf is up with that?

leader decides all content must promote revolutionary vanguard thought

doesn't want to lead a revolutionary vanguard

leaves