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Pretty deceptive to present yourself eager to discuss when you aggressively locked and closed issues where people present legitimate and well thought out concerns. If you don’t want to take responsibility for the proposal, withdraw your name from it.

> Political/ecosystem arguments are technical arguments.

No they are not. You don’t get to retcon a term just because people spotted a flaw in your argument.

Edit: I noticed you posted this while closing off the repo completely for new comments. You can’t make this up.

>>alexlu+(OP)
Software serves people. Underneath the question of what the technology does is always the question of what benefits who and why.

Is it technically correct for Hacker News to require login to upvote a story or comment? Mu; it's technically correct because it supports the ability to tie actions to actors, and that's correct because commenter history matters for the kind of forum Hacker News strives to be. Technical decisions are inextricable from what serves people.

And in that vein, the WEI team has been squelching comment channels because they've become low-value noise channels and dogpile opportunities. This isn't a design that the team in charge of it is choosing to do or not do by the number of angry GitHub posts they get, so that channel is now noise because they don't have someone to perch on the channel and filter novel information from me-too "Don't do" repeats.