I’m still inspecting my own motives, and even here I’m not sure that I’ve been honest with or about myself. I wasn’t intending to coerce, and in fact perhaps assuming too much that I’m unable to coerce, to the point of not even realizing that my words might seem coercive. But I wasn’t intending merely to inform as I implied here, I was also intending to push to see if the limited scope could be moved on more quickly. This is a tricky balance to get right, because while coercion is entirely inappropriate, clear and specific requests for targeted action are necessary to make effective progress.
I’m sorry that I misrepresented myself in my apology and undermined it. I want to be clear about what I have done wrong, so that I can be most effectively corrected if I’ve made other errors, and if I can’t be corrected that the community can know clearly when it will be appropriate to ask me to end my involvement.