>>6595>No, it wouldn't have. If anything, by consulting the users first regarding what was occuring in the background, more anons could have been brought around to understanding the context of the situation and thus make demands regarding change themselves, which would then at the very least legitimize the mods later decision to make a new board. By keeping everyone in the dark, we were instead left to piece together what was in all honestly a conspiracy. A conspiracy against a shit owner and his nepotistic clique, but a conspiracy still.The problem is that consulting with the users would look like a power play and encourage Space_ to counteract that with a play of his own. (Even if not a public one, perhaps one that would make it more difficult to move in the future.)
(In this case it's clearer that it went against the principle of user consultation, but you can view it as a clean-up operation on the split, continuing from the constraints that were happening there, rather than taking place in-and-on the environment of
this site.)