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It's sad, too, that Joyent and/or moderator Forest Norvell are rejecting posts to the Google Groups which are non-supportive of the new "Foundation". Doesn't seem like they really have the interests of the "community" in mind, IMO.



While I am responsible for moderating the [nodejs] Google group, I'm not the only moderator, and have been too busy to spend much time on it recently. It's not my intention to squelch discussion, and I'll touch bases with the other moderator to make sure that we're at least being consistent.

At the same time, one of the primary reasons for moderating the list in the first place was to ensure that the group is constructive and useful, and not just a venue for flamewars. This has been a problem when discussions around foundations, Joyent, forks, and the like have happened in the past. In fact, it nearly killed the group last time this discussion happened (a lot of longtime community members with a lot to contribute gave up on it in disgust), so I'm not going to claim that we're not going to step in if things get overly heated.


I did reject two particularly snarky, otherwise contentless messages today. Otherwise I've let nearly everything through.




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