I am calling for an election for new hosts

[laconicsax]

153. My opinion and vote

I don't like the differentiation between lead and co-hosts. Being at the top of the list shouldn't carry with it any additional authority or privilege. All hosts should be co-hosts since. The only thing that the #1 host has over the other hosts is that only an admin can remove them as a host.

Before Neoma removed iverglas as a host an blocked her from the group, I sent a PM to the hosts of this group suggesting that we don't take unilateral action in blocking someone, adding or removing new hosts, or locking and pinning threads. Excepting for blocking the most obvious disruptors and locking off-topic threads, none of the hosting actions should be used willy-nilly by a host. We don't need a hierarchy of hosts to function as a group. Each host should be equal to another, matters discussed, and actions agreed upon.

Everyone who responded did so favorably, and then Neoma unilaterally removed iverglas from the host list and blocked her from posting over an off-site argument, and has locked and pinned a thread that has no bearing on the SOP. Iverglas has since been unblocked and reinstated and I have since PM'd Neoma asking her to unpin her thread, but she has flatly refused.

That said, I think we should return to the original hosting roster minus Neoma, who has clearly abused her authority as host. Without her, the host roster would be:

seabeyond
CrispyQ (if she's still willing)
laconicsax
Redqueen
iverglas

This is the group of hosts that the group initially selected and I think that tossing the lot and starting over is the wrong decision. We should restore the original host roster then add new hosts.