So 2¢: a) I dislike reddit, it has a pretty bad culture of voting by opinion, drowning out opinions seen as different from the mob and it just, in general, has too many assholes (not /r/golang specifically, but reddit in general). b) I think one good argument for /r/golang over other things (like the go forum or whatever) is the cross-pollination. It allows non- or part-time gophers to voice their opinions and be heard in the go community and it allows full-time gophers that hang around on reddit (largely due to /r/golang) to also go to other subreddits and bring the go-perspective there. I think that is good, when /r/programming once again decides that go is the devil incarnated because it doesn't have ADT. c) I would find it sad, if /r/golang (or /r/whatevsgolang) wouldn't be official anymore, because that also means that the go CoC doesn't apply anymore or at least wouldn't be enforceable for lack of a good escalation path. As people pointed out, it is already kind of hard to moderate and keep in check, I believe this would make it worse. d) What /u/prez did was unconscionable and it makes it *very hard* to defend the continuing existence of reddit as a whole; before it could at least *pretend* to be a tool of free speech as a fig-leaf for allowing the spread of all the hate. But this argument falters completely in the face of censoring dissenting users content without consent.
FWIW, if /r/golang closes, I'll likely not frequent reddit anymore and will eventually delete my account; I have /r/golang in my RSS-reader and if it doesn't draw me there, I'll just forget over time. That's not an argument, but it illustrates (b) somewhat. On Fri, Nov 25, 2016 at 9:30 AM, Bogdan Bursuc <bogdanbursu...@gmail.com> wrote: > + > > On Fri, Nov 25, 2016 at 10:20 AM Konstantin Khomoutov < > flatw...@users.sourceforge.net> wrote: > >> On Thu, 24 Nov 2016 23:59:18 -0800 (PST) >> Ainar Garipov <gugl.zadol...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> > Please no. Google Groups is awful, Reddit's /r/golang is where I get >> > most of my Go news. I don't want to sift through a forum with no >> > voting system, and awful and slow overly-JS-ed design. >> >> On a side note I continue to wonder why people struggle with crappy web >> stuff when they can just subscribe to this mailing list and get mail >> from it into their mailbox, and read/write mails there using convenient >> mail reader (with proper threads, searching tagging custom mail folders >> and so on). >> >> Google Groups is just a web front-end for those dirt-old but trusty >> mailing lists of the 90's ;-) >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "golang-nuts" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > -- > Thanks, > Bogdan I. Bursuc > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "golang-nuts" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
