Tony Morris

If you're just a regular old person posting a comment, you don't have a lot of power, and the worst thing that can happen is you post things people don't like. But when you accept more power over other users, you better damn know how to use that responsibly. There's no excuse.

> There's no excuse Actually there is, it's called "ownership" which in the real world is about "property", protected by law. Online properties are different and governed by different laws, but the same concept more or less applies. And FOSS in general is not "public domain"

I said there is no excuse for a mod who abuses their power in the online scala community to not know how to handle it. Those mods don't own the scala community. Your argument, while flippant and "funny" (being generous here), does not add anything to the conversation.

No dude, those mods own the Reddit channel, which is in fact not representative of the "Scala community". The "Scala community" you're talking about does not exist. Also, I'm not trying to be funny, I'm just stating a fact.

Seth stayed out of it, though. Credit where it is due. I'm not sure it'd be correct to bring in the rest of the crew who said nothing while m50d hurled abuse i modmail, but we all have lives, so who knows if they were taking a break from reddit and m50d simply ran wild.

The whole thing reminds me a bit of the failed scalaz takeover ...