@mp he's not self appointed though, he just (aggressively) enforces the channel policy

I think that is consistent with the behavior I described. 🙂

fair enough, but it's worth noting that a lot of people seem to agree when he speaks up

Duly noted.

I suspect the people who agree with the policy suffer from the same lack of information he does, and don't realize that disclosing salary ranges not only limits the activity on this channel, but actively works against engineer's ability to negotiate the best compensations.