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>>topshe+(OP)
Another tame article in The Register:

https://www.theregister.com/2023/07/25/google_web_environmen...

Despite the spec's half-baked state, the blowback last week was swift – in the form of a flood of largely critical comments posted to the WEI GitHub repository, and abuse directed at the authors of the proposal. The Google devs' response was to limit comment posting to those who had previously contributed to the repo and to post a Code of Conduct document as a reminder to be civil.

The usual way to deal with opposition these days.

>>wasmy+l4
Limiting posting and asking for civility is the only way for individuals to meaningfully engage with even a mere thousand others. Nothing about the human mind was meant for social internet at the scale of the internet, where there are more distinct voices than you have heartbeats in a lifetime.

>>ben_w+w6
Yes, and the response should be to make the repo private. Only allowing interactions from previous contributors to a public repo is disingenuous.