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> That is so beyond unethical and immature, I no longer want anything to do with that site. I will be deleting my account on Reddit after backing up my content,
by Steeeve 10y ago
> That is so beyond unethical and immature, I no longer want anything to do with that site. I will be deleting my account on Reddit after backing up my content, and I will no longer be a moderator of /r/golang.
Responding to immaturity with immaturity is a bad idea altogether.
I have never understood Google's choice of "use google groups" for projects, then farming out community relations to third parties like StackOverflow, Reddit, etc. They have enough resources to manage their own support, news dissemination, and discussion mechanisms.
There are a number of reasons to not have an official presence on Reddit, but "I'm taking my ball and going home" isn't one of them.
- thewhitetulip 10y agoWhy do they use Google groups anymore? The UI sucks, it is heavily moderated. Reddit is like democracy where the elites of the community are treated equally with the others. Even the author's comments can be collapsed. name one place on the internet where this happens, except reddit. A knee jerk reaction, we want the subreddit back! p.s. after the Google Pixel thing, I do hope that they don't shut my google account down because I am saying that google groups sucks by citing some hidden rule or something.
- forgottenpass 10y agoResponding to immaturity with immaturity is a bad idea altogether. Sticking to principles, even when it's uncomfortable and inconvenient to do so is "immature" now?
- freehunter 10y agoIt's not the principles, it's the actions being discussed to follow through with those. You know the phrase "I'm taking my ball and going home"? What he wants to do is take someone else's ball, go home, and make sure that no one else is playing with a ball again after he leaves. He's wanting to destroy something the community finds useful, and not only that, wanting to prevent the community from building and using it on their own in the future if they wanted to continue without his involvement. That's the harmful action. It's fine if he says "I won't use reddit anymore". Perfectly fine. But shutting down the subreddit, deleting all of its content, and specifically reserving the name so the community can't continue in his absence is just... well, immature. There are better ways to handle it. This is a pure temper tantrum.
- Steeeve 10y agoI don't see anybody painting this as "sticking to principles" and the message certainly does not read that way to me.