I am not privy to why they made this decision,
If you are not privy to why or how this decision was made, you don’t know if it was data driven or logical.
You can suspect that. You can say the in your experience that is how decisions are made. But you don’t KNOW that.
However, I can state with a fair amount of certainty that the decision was not implemented using data or logic. At least not with GOOD data or logic.
Consider that the actual board closing was done without looking at different ways posts can be made. They shut down the front door, but left open a little used, although commonly known, side entrance. And apparently that side entrance is still there and available, having been used again this morning.
The decision was also communicated very poorly on at least two different occasions. First, in the way it was announced across the entire platform, then in the way it was explained on several occasions by an official TMF representative.
So you don’t know how the decision was made, and the evidence does not support a well thought out process. Therefore it is not logical to conclude that the decision itself was made logically.
—Peter