Proposal to delete the r/golang subreddit

>"my personal code does not permit me to continue here, how can I withdraw in the way that is least damaging to others" vs "I'm going to use my position of privilege to inflict as much harm on Reddit as I can, with no regard for damage to others" //

What I read at https://groups.google.com/forum/m/#!msg/golang-nuts/XoOhzUCl... just now seems quite inline with the former statement.

bradfitz expresses that he doesn't want to use Reddit anymore and that other mods may also not want to; that there are thus lots of possible moves - move to a reddit new reddit clone just for Golang, move to voat, etc.. It seems that if all the mods just abandon the sub without a continuation plan that the sub will be harmed more than if it's moved en bloc to a new site/forum?

It seems to me, approaching this situation fresh on HN with this story, that perhaps you're being coloured by other factors?

Thanks for this - I don't follow Go and until I read your post, I'd assumed that he was just a pissed off reddit user with no vested interest in Go outside his capacity as a moderator. The fact that he's a developer who is heavily involved in the product makes this a far bigger issue than I initially thought it was.

Announcing that he's stepping down as moderator as a result of this is his right and I'd completely support such a choice. Announcing that he's deleting his Reddit account and will no longer be involved in the Reddit community is a powerful statement given his position, and again, is a stance which I completely support whether I agree with him or not. Openly suggesting that other moderators also step down is perhaps a little OTT, but I still don't really have a major problem with it. If the Go team as a whole want to distance themselves from Reddit following this incident, that's understandable.

But if that's what they want to do, the way to do that is to recruit interested and active members of the subreddit to take over moderation duties. I'd go as far as to say that, with a community of 25,000 people, that is your duty as a moderator. Closing the subreddit completely shows a complete disregard for a significant proportion of your user population. Doing so on the ground of "unethical and immature" behaviour on the part of the CEO is more than a little hypocritical. Making your proposal on a separate platform so that those affected by your decision don't see it is unforgivable.

If you want to leave, fine. Taking your ball with you is just childish.

Exactly. I'm pissed of that they treat us Reddit users that way. If they don't want to use Reddit they can just fuck off somewhere else and let us be. We don't need them to "moderate" us.

I have a lot of respect for the Go team but they sure are bad at managing communities.

As I have stated elsewhere, the Go community is split into two factions, elites (Googlers) and others. Reddit is the only place where others and elites are treated the same, post for feedback on the google group, which has sucky UI and is terrible to use, and you get small comments because they are busy and the feedback isn't at all helpful. Contrast that with Reddit, as someone had pointed to me on HN, I posted a question about AJAX and Go, I got two answers, one in vanilla JS and one in JQuery. Had I asked that in the google groups, I'd likely have not been able to post because it would have been "too simple" or I'd have been shooed away to some obscure stack overflow link.

The community wants the subreddit, you can leave if you want. Just because one person screwed up doesn't mean that someone who rarely uses reddit wants to delete the subreddit WITHOUT asking the community. This is against the point of open source. Isn't Go open source?

It was never "they", it was me.

As I replied to you Reddit, the subreddit's early history (that I just learned about) is why I no longer propose deleting it. I think we should just disassociate from it and make it unofficial again.

Does anyone know if u/spez edited anything in r/golang?