A not-quite-competent tax-deductible band of conspirators (or, AO3/OTW mini-update)

The OTW election ends at midnight UTC tonight (so, way earlier in US time, here’s a countdown clock). Encouragement and thanks to all the voters!

The Board candidate who dropped out before the Q&A part of Elections got going reappeared to make a post about how they dropped out because Kutti and others were just too mean by…pointing out racism and volunteer mistreatment. FFA picks apart all the red flags with the post; some anons try to add their own vagueposting, the rest are unimpressed with the lack of receipts.

Kutti responds directly, including a bunch of relevant links, because, listen, there’s one side of this that has receipts, and it’s the “OTW racism is bad” side.

“A pattern of dismissal and retaliation: the experiences of Zixin Z. and the Chinese volunteers.” Compilation post on Tumblr. (From the account FandomAntiRacism, which has really swooped in and picked up a lot of the balls EOTWR keeps dropping.)

Posted in 2012 about nonprofits in general, shockingly relevant to AO3 today: “It can take years before a not-quite-competent charity finally works out how to transition from a board-run/individual-run tax-deductible band of conspirators to being a professional staff-run organisation tuned to doing the particular thing it does. The changes always seem simple and obvious in hindsight and everyone involved feels stupid at having taken years to achieve the retrospectively obvious.“