Occupy Underground

proposal. I don't see what's authoritarian about saying that all the work those people did should not be tossed aside because it happened prior to the formation of the group. The purpose of starting an Occupy group on DU was to provide a welcoming home for Occupy supporters who felt that the new GD was much colder towards Occupy since the change-over. Some, not all of these folks are also on du2 but that should not matter. Some folks here seem to be saying that if it happened on du2 it does not matter.

More to the point, the idea behind the group, as stated in the SoP is to follow hosting guidelines that are supportive of the GA system and as it is, with no guidelines and no host, anyone who is an Occupy skeptic is free to join the new group and say "we don't need to listen to THOSE people (the ones who are also on du2) just because they put in 6 weeks of work to form the group" I don't know what you mean by paranoia... folks there have legitimate concerns that if somepony here gets pissed off they will blame "the people over there" and get Admin to shut it down. Occupy is about bringing everyone together around a common process and certain goals in common, if people don't want hosts then there is no need for guidelines, but then you should expect this to be an open forum that is not specifically friendly to Occupy, just a place to post news and announcements.