Micro.blog needs a community manager again. If it’s going to aspire to be a community, not just a platform, then community management is needed.

In a situation like we’ve just been through over the last couple of days, a community manager’s role would be to act, as far as possible, as a mediator between the community and @manton.

I know this won’t be a particularly welcome thought at a time when it looks like micro.blog’s income has just take a hit. (A number of people I follow have left, but I have no idea how widespread this is, a side-effect of the structures of micro.blog I value). But I think it’s the way forward.