i can’t stand megathreads – no one reads these! no one wants their posts banished there!

  • jelloeater - Ops Mgr
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    61 year ago

    AFAIK they weren’t bad folks, they just didn’t want to deal with the surge of new users.

    • @Gullible
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      61 year ago

      They closed up in order to avoid mistakenly accepting bigots into the fold. Nothing wrong with leaving a safe space to its own devices, as long as it isn’t bothering anyone else.

    • @magnetosphere
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      21 year ago

      Yeah, that was the #1 reason they gave. There weren’t enough mods to keep up with the sudden workload.