TL;DR jonathon (treasurer) was removed from the OpenCollective after they had a big argument with philm (project lead) over whether or not to authorize the purchase of a $2,000 laptop. After that jonathon posted his grievances on the Manjaro forum, to which philm responded by delisting the thread and removing jonathan as moderator of the forum.
I don’t entirely disagree, in the sense that I’m open to the possibility that they could come out with a statement that clears things up. But my approach is to disengage until such date as that occurs.