I'm still not clear on exactly who wrote the rules and in particular why my name is included there as a part of the channel cabal. Beyond hanging out at the channel for a while now, I haven't been involved in channel moderation in any way, and whoever wrote the rules text never asked me about including my name there.

As far as I can tell, the rules are a well-meaning attempt at keeping the signal-to-noise ratio up on the channel, but might be served better by having a bit more clarity at exactly who sees them necessary, who is authorized to enforce them, and what the rest of the channel regulars think of the whole thing. Like, y'know, the people whose names the rules-authoring person listed in the rules text as the implied backers of the rules without asking them anything.