Here via metafandom. Thank you for writing this, it's nice to have a better idea what happened. Thanks also for acknowledging my thread on the LJ server names announcement post; it's also nice to know someone who cared was paying attention, which is not how it felt at the time.

I wish I'd seen this post when it was made, because in April I still had some energy for this topic; I was still tapping out the start of letters to the OTW and then deleting them in frustration without sending, and planning LJ posts that never got written, because I honestly thought that no one cared and the OTW as a whole was disinterested. The latter is a belief I still hold; regardless of dissenting individuals such as yourself, the decision to prioritize a throwaway line about tallying votes instead of the OTW's supposed values of inclusion and diversity reflects the whole. There's been nothing to suggest to me that the same mistakes (decisions with poor priorities that dismiss the OTW's own "values" of diversity) won't be made again in new ways.

So thank you for this post, but I'm not refilled with lost confidence for the OTW. I am happy to see from the comments that I'm not as alone as I previously felt; all my anime/manga/game friends have long since dismissed or abandoned the OTW, for reasons I hope by now are obvious.