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In reply to the discussion: Tackling Asian Privilege [View all]Violet_Crumble
(35,990 posts)There was nothing different about this one. And the fact is that no GD host held the lock hostage. There were six leave votes, and that's too many leave votes for a host who does their job properly and who respects that they're only one person in a bigger team to go and lock. One dissenting vote is a different matter, and I've locked threads before with just one leave vote.
I've always said when I'm a GD host that I don't mind non-GD hosts participating if they identify themselves and know their votes aren't going to be counted. What I do mind is when people who mostly never, and sometimes rarely, participate in threads about GD alerts appear out of nowhere and start getting nasty at the GD hosts. When GD hosts are trying to deal with something where there's not a clear consensus, those 'additional voices' aren't helpful at all...