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And as a specific example, whether this question is too broad seems to me to be up to us, the community, not up to the mods. I would've liked to have weighed in.

In general I feel like while this was an honest attempt to make the site better, it was done without serious consideration of potential unintended consequences and without substantial discussion. Now there are protest questions and at least one user who was at one point considered exceptional has decided to leave the site based on these new rules.

Yes, of course, suspensions are a private matter between mods and users. And PuzzlingSE has had its leading-rep user suspended before. But this only satisfies us (the community) if we truly trust the moderators. And right now, I don't find comments like this very reassuring, because of the reasons above.

Gamow is not only the all-time leading rep user on the site, but is also the all-time leading reviewer—by a wide margin—in every single category. See: here, here, here, here, here, and here.

And looking at Gamow's activity history, it seems that he/she was still an active and productive member of the site, and it hurts the site to lose him/her.

I'm a bit torn as well, for all of his great work on enigmatic/cryptic crossword puzzles, Deusovi is extremely trigger-happy when hitting vote to close. And this does matter, as I don't know what that would look like if his vote had the power to instantly close any question. – ffao Jul 13 at 2:06

And as a specific example, whether this question is too broad seems to me to be up to us, the community, not up to the mods. I would've liked to have weighed in.

In general I feel like while this was an honest attempt to make the site better, it was done without serious consideration of potential unintended consequences and without substantial discussion. Now there are protest questions and at least one user who was at one point considered exceptional has decided to leave the site based on these new rules.

Yes, of course, suspensions are a private matter between mods and users. And PuzzlingSE has had its leading-rep user suspended before. But this only satisfies us (the community) if we truly trust the moderators. And right now, I don't find comments like this very reassuring, because of the reasons above.

Gamow is not only the all-time leading rep user on the site, but is also the all-time leading reviewer—by a wide margin—in every single category. See: here, here, here, here, here, and here.

And looking at Gamow's activity history, it seems that he/she was still an active and productive member of the site, and it hurts the site to lose him/her.

I'm a bit torn as well, for all of his great work on enigmatic/cryptic crossword puzzles, Deusovi is extremely trigger-happy when hitting vote to close. And this does matter, as I don't know what that would look like if his vote had the power to instantly close any question. – ffao Jul 13 at 2:06

Aug 21 at 17:15

Aug 22 at 17:48

And while the talk of unanimity is great, since the initial +27/-0 period, the "proposal" has received "+8/-9" votes and now stands at +35/-9. The Riddle Sandbox itself is at +28/-13. 13 downvotes! In addition, now the top-voted answer to the original proposal is against the idea.

And just to be clear, I'm no friend to poor-quality posts and do care about site quality. I just have reservations about how this was handled.

On the other hand, one of the reasons I voted for Emrakul were comments like this from the moderator Q&A:

Aug 21 at 17:15

Aug 22 at 17:48

And while the talk of unanimity is great, since the initial +27/-0 period, the "proposal" has received "+8/-9" votes and now stands at +35/-9. The Riddle Sandbox itself is at +28/-13. 13 downvotes! In addition, now the top-voted answer to the original proposal is against the idea.

And just to be clear, I'm no friend to poor-quality posts and do care about site quality. I just have reservations about how this was handled.

On the other hand, one of the reasons I voted for Emrakul were comments like this from the moderator Q&A: