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The ending of that was so unexpected: > Wow great conversation! Let's lock it to contributors just for a laugh and not because someone on Twitter just unhelpfu

The ending of that was so unexpected: > Wow great conversation! Let's lock it to contributors just for a laugh and not because someone on Twitter just unhelpfully sent 27.3k Looky-Loos over to drop their $0.02 on my repo > @reactiveui reactiveui locked as resolved and limited conversation to collaborators 6 days ago Either I'm out of touch (quite probable) or sarcasm doesn't translate too well, since... I think they're unhappy with someone tweeting a link to this PR, but it also seems unclear why discussion was shut down.

knorker 5y ago
I think that was a good call. Most mob-comments on these things are not productive. And especially when done on the project's own infrastructure (unlike here on HN) it's like locking your normally-open door to prevent people coming into your house to berate you. Let the people upset write to their local paper, instead. I don't think the thread would be helped by 100 "who's here from HN?", "Congrats, you're on reddit", and such.
- sillysaurusx 5y ago
  On reflection, you're right. I also realized that they probably had to delete a bunch of pile-on comments, which would've been annoying too.
- ashtonkem 5y ago
  I think you’re right about making that decision, but the sarcastic description of the situation in the article comes across as condescending.
  - tlamponi 5y ago
    What you do not see is any deleted messages that already happened before that comment, it can well be that a bunch of twitter/reddit/hn/... users already thought it'd be helpful to invade and post some probably not so well-thought-out nor useful stuff. And I mean, it's their repo, if they want to restrict an issue/pr to contributors only and do so with a sarcastic message or some other rhetoric way, it's their full right to do so..
    - ashtonkem 5y ago
      Of course it’s their right to do so, what a silly response. Just because they can, doesn’t mean they should though. > What you do not see is any deleted messages that already happened before that comment, it can well be that a bunch of twitter/reddit/hn/... users already thought it'd be helpful to invade and post some probably not so well-thought-out nor useful stuff. And so the solution is to double down and antagonize everyone else? That’s a good way to lose any moral high ground. Ban the bad actors if need be, lock the comments, but for god’s sake communicate that decision professionally.

knorker 5y ago

I think that was a good call. Most mob-comments on these things are not productive. And especially when done on the project's own infrastructure (unlike here on HN) it's like locking your normally-open door to prevent people coming into your house to berate you. Let the people upset write to their local paper, instead. I don't think the thread would be helped by 100 "who's here from HN?", "Congrats, you're on reddit", and such.

sillysaurusx 5y ago
On reflection, you're right. I also realized that they probably had to delete a bunch of pile-on comments, which would've been annoying too.
ashtonkem 5y ago
I think you’re right about making that decision, but the sarcastic description of the situation in the article comes across as condescending.
- tlamponi 5y ago
  What you do not see is any deleted messages that already happened before that comment, it can well be that a bunch of twitter/reddit/hn/... users already thought it'd be helpful to invade and post some probably not so well-thought-out nor useful stuff. And I mean, it's their repo, if they want to restrict an issue/pr to contributors only and do so with a sarcastic message or some other rhetoric way, it's their full right to do so..
  - ashtonkem 5y ago
    Of course it’s their right to do so, what a silly response. Just because they can, doesn’t mean they should though. > What you do not see is any deleted messages that already happened before that comment, it can well be that a bunch of twitter/reddit/hn/... users already thought it'd be helpful to invade and post some probably not so well-thought-out nor useful stuff. And so the solution is to double down and antagonize everyone else? That’s a good way to lose any moral high ground. Ban the bad actors if need be, lock the comments, but for god’s sake communicate that decision professionally.