pack colors, the 3.1 rule question

I acknowledged communication about this requirement could be improved. I also disagree that this policy is being applied universally with no warning; as mentioned, the transition is being taken slowly and more specific instruction will be coming to legacy packs at a future date, including whether one color or two need to meet requirements for light/dark mode. We have also frequently worked with forming packs in the past when encountering colors that are difficult to read — the difference now is that we have documented this in the Guidebook.

Thank you for providing additional context on why ADA and accessibility is important and why we are focusing on it. To be honest, I do not want to spend hours crafting a long message for every decision we make (The Spirit of WOLF was drafted over the course of several days, reread, edited, etc for clarity before it was finally posted publicly), especially when a change is purely cosmetic. I do agree a shorter announcement with some of the links you provided could have been helpful, but on the "operations" side this clarification in the guidebook seemed too minor to warrant it at the time (given that we have been working with forming packs for years on this, and it did not yet and still does not yet apply to existing packs).

The part that is not negotiable is that we are striving towards ADA compliance.

The "member-driven" portion of our mission statement seems to be widely misunderstood. We do prioritize member feedback, especially when it relates to the in character environment or when policies impacting the in character environment need adjustment. However, prioritization does not mean WOLF is a democracy or that all decisions will be discussed with and reviewed by the membership.

We use feedback to inform our decisions, but the decisions are ultimately up to the CM team. There will be times when we are not open to feedback. We are humans with emotions behind the screen, too, and constantly having to defend ourselves and our boundaries is tiresome. The tone policing is tiresome. We do our best to be open and transparent and explain/clarify ourselves, but we are flawed just like everyone else. We do our best to please the majority, but we know it will never be possible to please everyone, and as a result there are times we are going to be firm and make a call. That doesn't mean we are dismissive and haven't been discussing behind the scenes if something is a priority or not.

For context? Upgrading the board so it doesn't break in a few weeks when a new version of PHP is enforced by our host is much larger than crafting communications for (in the grand scheme of running WOLF) a trivial update. One would prevent you from participating in the game. The other doesn't. This is a hobby and we need to prioritize what we spend our free energy on as a CM team.