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If he just left reddit and deleted his account, that's one thing. Shutting down the community and deleting the content is another. But going through steps to ma
by freehunter 10y ago
If he just left reddit and deleted his account, that's one thing. Shutting down the community and deleting the content is another. But going through steps to make sure that community can never rebuilt itself after it's gone is so far beyond a protest against one person that I can't even believe it's being considered.
Literally, in that Google Groups conversation they said they wanted to delete everything and make it private so no one could ever use it again. That's insane.
- sqeaky 10y agoThere has to be a less destructive way than to simply delete the subreddit, perhaps put up a date that new post will be disallowed and links to other official Forums. Then when posts are no longer allowed, leave a read only copy up for some time, then leave nothing but the links to other communities.
- freehunter 10y agoWhy even disallow new posts? What's the point? It's not an official support forum, he shouldn't have the right to shut down a community site and bar people from using it.
- sqeaky 10y agoMany people not be aware of the issue and the network effect would have those people stay, despite the most talented leaders of the Go community leaving. It stops being a community it the non-experts are separated from the experts by inaction of the experts. If someone really likes Reddit that much, let make another go language sub.