My local freecycle group shut without warning last night and we all got an email from the mods saying they have shut it and started their own group. Is this happening elsewhere?
"While Freecycle is a GREAT idea, all moderators of the UK groups have been forced to follow rules which were not created specifically for the UK.
Leaders of Freecycle in the UK have spent more than two years talking with the main Freecycle Network (in the USA) trying to get the freedom to run things in a way more suited to how Freecycle works in the UK. So we can make it better for all of us.
Nothing has been changed.
Earlier this summer four leading members of the National UK Freecycle team resigned including the Director , in protest at the lack of change . Moderators around the country then formed an Independent Association of Moderators and AGAIN tried talking with The Freecycle Network.Hoping to negotiate and find a positive way to continue under the banner of Freecycle.
This has not been possible.
We acknowledge that what Freecycle does in the community is great. We just don't agree that we should be dictated to from across the Atlantic and adopt inappropriate policies. We think the members and moderators make Freecycle great.
There has now been multiple summary expulsions of moderators who have asked for change from Freecycle. All UK moderators have lost their freedom of speech within the organisation. So here in Brighton we have decided to go our own way along with the majority of other Freecycle UK groups."
"While Freecycle is a GREAT idea, all moderators of the UK groups have been forced to follow rules which were not created specifically for the UK.
Leaders of Freecycle in the UK have spent more than two years talking with the main Freecycle Network (in the USA) trying to get the freedom to run things in a way more suited to how Freecycle works in the UK. So we can make it better for all of us.
Nothing has been changed.
Earlier this summer four leading members of the National UK Freecycle team resigned including the Director , in protest at the lack of change . Moderators around the country then formed an Independent Association of Moderators and AGAIN tried talking with The Freecycle Network.Hoping to negotiate and find a positive way to continue under the banner of Freecycle.
This has not been possible.
We acknowledge that what Freecycle does in the community is great. We just don't agree that we should be dictated to from across the Atlantic and adopt inappropriate policies. We think the members and moderators make Freecycle great.
There has now been multiple summary expulsions of moderators who have asked for change from Freecycle. All UK moderators have lost their freedom of speech within the organisation. So here in Brighton we have decided to go our own way along with the majority of other Freecycle UK groups."
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Gawd knows what I've done...I've probably joined a dogging site or summat.
