Jon Pretty

In an ideal society, where people's brains have turned into proof assistants and our words become sequents and tactics, I agree. Until then, we have to swim in the waters of casual human conversation where every conversation is a chaotic process. Endeavor to not perturb.

here's the thing: people make errors of judgment all day long. they do not escalate them beyond arguing. the mods in question, as well as Lightbend and EPFL apparently, have decided to use their power to go beyond that. This means they must, but cannot, handle their power.

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.

That's nice, but /r/Scala and the likes are purported to be welcoming and open, rather than fascistic and arbitrary which they turn out to be by trial. People are invited on false premise, build up the community with their posts and interactions, and then 1/4

they are thrown away when they fall off the party line. But those interactions and efford belong to them, rather than some childish person installed in a golden throne. There is simply no way to migrate this as data. Your argument, "just fork it" is so misguided in this case, 2/4