I've seen a few times organizations experience a \"governance fail loop\". When things are fine, governance (like voting\/deciding rules) seems unnecessary. Then when things are suddenly NOT fine, it's not only impossible to fix the immediate problem, it's also impossible to add in governance at a time when everybody's suspicious of the governance proposal being used to also make one side win. Anybody else seen instances of this?<\/p>","generator":{"id":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2026-06-21:notice-source:ActivityPub","objectType":"application","status_net":{"source_code":"ActivityPub"}},"id":"https:\/\/mastodon.geekery.org\/users\/lisarue\/statuses\/115345437393357754","object":{"id":"https:\/\/mastodon.geekery.org\/users\/lisarue\/statuses\/115345437393357754","objectType":"note","content":"
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