This seems to me driven by dramatic escalation. You feel wronged, so you feel the need to take a potent action to right that wrong. Understandable, emotionally, but I agree with KnaveOfAllTrades: what response do you think will improve things and why?
Could there have been any other way of approaching this problem than escalation? Your wording makes me assume you approached gwern personally about the topic. Did you? If you PM him, he stands nothing to gain, no karma, no “show” of besting you, so the conversation would be a level playing field. Have you tried speaking to him in private, calmly, to explain how you see the situation and where you take offense?
Do you intend to inspire others to make criticisms against gwern? Most likely, they have already made those criticisms. Though, of course, it’s easy to say “dissent has been voiced” when you are not the one dissenting, so citation needed for that claim.
Finally, if gwern is in the wrong AND is getting away with it, appealing to the board in this manner may not be the most effective means to approach this problem. Are there no other, high level users/mods you can speak to? Perhaps some who witnessed this conflict. Speak to them privately, understand their outside view, present your case.
Appealing to the board as a whole should be done carefully. Not in the heat of emotion unless those emotions are tied to literally world-threatening events. Have you exhausted more subtle avenues of trying to right this disagreement, avenues that do not involve, essentially, spurring the collective conscience to an action that you feel you, alone, cannot make? And if you have, what actions do you hope to inspire that WILL correct this disagreement or insult or whatever?
This seems to me driven by dramatic escalation. You feel wronged, so you feel the need to take a potent action to right that wrong. Understandable, emotionally, but I agree with KnaveOfAllTrades: what response do you think will improve things and why?
Could there have been any other way of approaching this problem than escalation? Your wording makes me assume you approached gwern personally about the topic. Did you? If you PM him, he stands nothing to gain, no karma, no “show” of besting you, so the conversation would be a level playing field. Have you tried speaking to him in private, calmly, to explain how you see the situation and where you take offense?
Do you intend to inspire others to make criticisms against gwern? Most likely, they have already made those criticisms. Though, of course, it’s easy to say “dissent has been voiced” when you are not the one dissenting, so citation needed for that claim.
Finally, if gwern is in the wrong AND is getting away with it, appealing to the board in this manner may not be the most effective means to approach this problem. Are there no other, high level users/mods you can speak to? Perhaps some who witnessed this conflict. Speak to them privately, understand their outside view, present your case.
Appealing to the board as a whole should be done carefully. Not in the heat of emotion unless those emotions are tied to literally world-threatening events. Have you exhausted more subtle avenues of trying to right this disagreement, avenues that do not involve, essentially, spurring the collective conscience to an action that you feel you, alone, cannot make? And if you have, what actions do you hope to inspire that WILL correct this disagreement or insult or whatever?