You are right, by "community" I meant the core team and not the reddit community. they have been awesome (except the core team). I got a lot of positive feedbac

You are right, by "community" I meant the core team and not the reddit community. they have been awesome (except the core team). I got a lot of positive feedback about the todo manager and the book. My apologies for the unclear comment. When you look at the Go ecosystem there are two classes: 1. core team (the elites) 2. others (us plebeians) The parent post has a brilliant line, which made me laugh for half hour: >I wanted to check an invariant; how does Go do assertions? Fuck you, you’re a bad programmer. That’s how. the others are awesome, my interaction with the core team was far from pleasant. They are rude and outright snarky. They focused on the book title more than the content and didn't even bother to read the content. I mean they did take a cursory glance, but the others on reddit were amazing: https://www.reddit.com/r/golang/comments/3zle8c/i_am_writing_a_book_about_writing_web_apps_with/ https://www.reddit.com/r/golang/comments/3zle8c/i_am_writing... https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/golang-nuts/suraj$20patil%7Csort:relevance/golang-nuts/F4LJwyYZcXU/nKEL9hHOEAAJ https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/golang-nuts/suraj... This is how I got banned from the subreddit. Anyways Good for me, I stopped browsing reddit that much. https://www.reddit.com/r/golang/comments/4lj0yn/congrats_brad_fitzpatrick/d3ots59 https://www.reddit.com/r/golang/comments/4lj0yn/congrats_bra... On the last link, click the downvoted comments, I deleted few comments, but yeah, that's about it, I got banned because I questioned the elites, it is called bullying! Later I spoke with that guy himself, turns out he wasn't being rude :-D