I think everyone who's been here more than a week or two has had multiple negative interactions with them.
Awful, reactionary posters. We might as well start advertising on red website if we stay fedded with them.
I think everyone who's been here more than a week or two has had multiple negative interactions with them.
Awful, reactionary posters. We might as well start advertising on red website if we stay fedded with them.
I agree that they shouldn't be defedded, but I disagree with your statement on the people opposed to federation. Lurkers' experience matters just as much as posters', and the site dies without either. I believe the threat was always that they'd stop using the site, not so much that they'd stop posting.
How would the site die without lurkers?
They are where the majority of votes come from, not to mention that if you take a histogram of how many of the total share of comments are made by what % of users, even though the top 10% of commenters will have made the majority of comments, the site really needs those people that make occasional contributions.