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So the only thing holding you back from deleting a subreddit with tons of information, 25.000 subscribed users and what looks like a rather active and healthy d

by pikzen 10y ago

So the only thing holding you back from deleting a subreddit with tons of information, 25.000 subscribed users and what looks like a rather active and healthy discussion isn't that it would be a dick move to both golang in general and the community, but that you're not actually the owner. Could you get any more childish?

SomeStupidPoint 10y ago
Not attaching your brand to poor service is also part of managing a community. If AWS started MITMing client HTTP connections and injecting code, would you be surprised people moved their official websites off the platform, even if a lot of people knew the old IP address? That's not childish, that's not doing business with bad partners, and Im not convinced a space that started as official could ever truly be made "non-official".
- pikzen 10y ago
  What I mean is that the subreddit doesn't belong to bradfitz, or Google, or the golang creators. It has never started as official because the creator was /u/uriel. The Google guys may have joined after, but the fact is that it is not their community. They're not even paying a single dime for it. If AWS started MITMing my connections, absolutely, I would drop it. But the analogy doesn't hold because /r/golang isn't bradfitz's subreddit. The proper and only response would be to drop moderatorship, leaving in a thread his reasons, and leaving /r/golang as it is. As it stands, the only thing stopping him from doing that is that the he's not the original owner. And, you could also argue that when a community reaches a certain size, it doesn't belong to you anymore. It belongs to that community. To delete it is petty and childish.
- tehwebguy 10y ago
  The reddit CEO played a prank. Google actively helps China censor dissent.
  - umanwizard 10y ago
    They do? How? Google was still blocked in China last time I was there afaik.

by pikzen 10y ago

SomeStupidPoint 10y ago

Not attaching your brand to poor service is also part of managing a community. If AWS started MITMing client HTTP connections and injecting code, would you be surprised people moved their official websites off the platform, even if a lot of people knew the old IP address? That's not childish, that's not doing business with bad partners, and Im not convinced a space that started as official could ever truly be made "non-official".

pikzen 10y ago
What I mean is that the subreddit doesn't belong to bradfitz, or Google, or the golang creators. It has never started as official because the creator was /u/uriel. The Google guys may have joined after, but the fact is that it is not their community. They're not even paying a single dime for it. If AWS started MITMing my connections, absolutely, I would drop it. But the analogy doesn't hold because /r/golang isn't bradfitz's subreddit. The proper and only response would be to drop moderatorship, leaving in a thread his reasons, and leaving /r/golang as it is. As it stands, the only thing stopping him from doing that is that the he's not the original owner. And, you could also argue that when a community reaches a certain size, it doesn't belong to you anymore. It belongs to that community. To delete it is petty and childish.
tehwebguy 10y ago
The reddit CEO played a prank. Google actively helps China censor dissent.
- umanwizard 10y ago
  They do? How? Google was still blocked in China last time I was there afaik.