Deleting the golang subreddit

Post by bradfitz » Fri, Nov 25, 2016, 4:50 PM UTC

qz_ wrote: post #120

bradfitz wrote: post #87

I was the one who proposed deleting /r/golang. It is not some official Go or Google position. As much as I used to love Reddit and was addicted to it, my personal position is that Reddit is no longer a trustworthy platform (if it ever was). Editing user content is beyond offensive. I never even considered such a thing in my years of running LiveJournal. That is a major violation of user trust and trust in the platfor…

> Now I'm brainstorming how one might build a federated Reddit with public, signed mutation log, ala CT or other chains. And then multiple UIs could render the same public & federated data set. Reddit is 100% open source: https://github.com/reddit/reddit

Post by _coldfire » Fri, Nov 25, 2016, 4:51 PM UTC

blitzd wrote: post #96

problems wrote: post #53

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Again "stupid internet drama and conspiracy theories" this is not. An admin abused their power. It's ripe for abuse and they've proven they're willing to abuse it and not mature enough to treat that power respectfully. I have a hard time respecting a company with someone like that as CEO. No conspiracy, no politics, just what happened.

I would argue that a moderator shutting down a community of 25,000 individuals because of their own personal opinions is just as much if not the greater abuse of power.

Post by philovivero » Fri, Nov 25, 2016, 4:53 PM UTC

ryanlol wrote: post #104

BoorishBears wrote: post #11

This is asinine and it going through would seriously harm how mature I assumed the community around Golang was (actually reading through those posts already did, but either way I guess I'm just one person right?). The CEO edited a comment and admitted he edited it, and it was stupid, and he shouldn't have done it. I'm 100% sure there is a way for someone at any given platform they'd choose to replace it with to acces…

>The CEO edited a comment and admitted he edited it, and it was stupid, and he shouldn't have done it. Only incident we know of. It's overwhelmingly likely that they both had tools built for this and had used them before. And admitted he edited them ? Yeah, after he was called out in front of the entire world. >The sensible amongst us should be above childish drama like this. Not sure if trying to rationalise massive…

Post by tapirl » Fri, Nov 25, 2016, 4:56 PM UTC

qz_ wrote: post #120

bradfitz wrote: post #87

I was the one who proposed deleting /r/golang. It is not some official Go or Google position. As much as I used to love Reddit and was addicted to it, my personal position is that Reddit is no longer a trustworthy platform (if it ever was). Editing user content is beyond offensive. I never even considered such a thing in my years of running LiveJournal. That is a major violation of user trust and trust in the platfor…

> Now I'm brainstorming how one might build a federated Reddit with public, signed mutation log, ala CT or other chains. And then multiple UIs could render the same public & federated data set. Reddit is 100% open source: https://github.com/reddit/reddit

Post by Klathmon » Fri, Nov 25, 2016, 4:58 PM UTC

bradfitz wrote: post #164

Klathmon wrote: post #80

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They have been vocal in the past about disliking the subreddit, I think this is just their opportunity. Edit: disregard this. I remember reading some things a while ago and haven't looked into it, and I shouldn't have jumped in without doing some due diligence.

They? I've never seen the other moderators or myself disliking Reddit before. This is my opinion alone.