This is a great response. I've only recently started learning Elm (and webdev in general... coming from a systems programming background). I chose ElmConf for

This is a great response. I've only recently started learning Elm (and webdev in general... coming from a systems programming background). I chose ElmConf for the preconf to strange loop this year. Why not learn a new language. I've seen quite a few people with fairly negative things to say about the community. I had my very first thread locked on elm just a couple of days ago. Apparently there were some deleted comments that were not so nice. Unfortunately, by the time I saw my posting locked, that meant it was too late for me to engage in any sort of conversation to figure out exactly what went wrong. Let me be clear; the core of a community are the ones responsible for creating and maintaining the culture of the community, and of course protecting the community members from abuse. I understand this... But I don't understand how stopping conversations that "have a well-known history of devolving into unconstructive flame wars". It seems that is punishing people before they've actually done anything that violates that rules of the community. At least, that's certainly how I feel. Regardless, I'm looking forward to my journey of learning Elm and using it to build some UI's my teams are going to be needing. As I said, I'm attending ElmConf. I look forward to meeting you and others in the Elm community.