Theymos is using censorship to engineer his personal beliefs of Bitcoin - and XT is not the first time.
When Theymos doesn't like something, he buries discussions of it to places where it isn't easily found. This amounts to a form of censorship. He like to imagine 'oh, that's not true bitcoin - so I'll just stuff that over in alts'.
It has a profound effect on the community. Censorship is wrong. Theymos as custodian of the largest platform on bitcoin should self impose restrictions on continued use of this technique.
For example, Mastercoin was worth $150M market cap and getting enormous attention. Mastercoin is added layer on TOP of bitcoin. It introduced some really useful new function - on top of bitcoin's blockchain.
Theymos didn't consider it real bitcoin. He moved the Mastercoin threads deep into the very noisy 'Alts' section. The community could no longer effectively communicate and organize. Mastercoin dissolved and disappeared immediately thereafter.
Theymos simply destroyed Mastercoin because he personally didn't like it.
Theymos does like XT. He considers everything outside his ideal - 'an Alt'. So, he invokes a kind of censorship to bury those topics.
It is a very dangerous part of our Bitcoin community that one man has his finger on the delete key and can silence large groups of people presenting important opinion - by merely declaring is 'Alts'.
Theymos needs to stop. - or be stopped.
Altcoin section moderator here:
Theymos is using censorship...
Definition:
Censorship blocks something from being read, heard, or seen.
Source:
http://www.vocabulary.com/dictionary/censorshipMoving to the altcoin sections isn't blocking, it's literally clicks away. Regarding the /r/bitcoin subreddit, you are free to create another subreddit that doesn't delete BitcoinXT threads.
to engineer his personal beliefs of Bitcoin - and XT is not the first time.
You do know that this forum legally belongs to theymos, right? As such he can "engineer" whatever the hell he pleases and so far he's been pretty liberal about it.
When Theymos doesn't like something, he buries discussions of it to places where it isn't easily found.
Yeah, clicking your mouse several times is such a hard task.
/s
This amounts to a form of censorship.
See previous definition.
He like to imagine 'oh, that's not true bitcoin - so I'll just stuff that over in alts'.
And you go to the altcoin sections to see the threads. Big whoop.
It has a profound effect on the community. Censorship is wrong. Theymos as custodian of the largest platform on bitcoin should self impose restrictions on continued use of this technique.
So far I've seen crap in this forum that would never fly in most internet communities, not by a long shot. Moving threads to the altcoin section is not and will never be censorship. You can still fully access it from the comfort of your home.
For example, Mastercoin was worth $150M market cap and getting enormous attention. Mastercoin is added layer on TOP of bitcoin. It introduced some really useful new function - on top of bitcoin's blockchain.
If it was so amazing, it would've survived in the altcoin sections. Apparently, the "enormous attention" was just excitement for something new that quickly withered off.
Theymos didn't consider it real bitcoin. He moved the Mastercoin threads deep into the very noisy 'Alts' section. The community could no longer effectively communicate and organize. Mastercoin dissolved and disappeared immediately thereafter.
MasterCoin -
BitCoin. See the difference. It was/is a different cryptocurrency and it doesn't matter if it was built on top of the Bitcoin blockchain. 99% of current altcoins are tweaked versions of the Bitcoin code.
Theymos simply destroyed Mastercoin because he personally didn't like it.
I don't think he cared enough about it to dislike it.
Theymos does like XT. He considers everything outside his ideal - 'an Alt'. So, he invokes a kind of censorship to bury those topics.
He supports the Core side and that's his freedom to choose. He allowed for discussion of XT to remain in the forum. And if he doesn't want to host someone's bullshit on a forum that he owns or a subreddit that Reddit allowed him to control (as legally Reddit probably owns all subreddits), it's his damn business.
It is a very dangerous part of our Bitcoin community that one man has his finger on the delete key and can silence large groups of people presenting important opinion - by merely declaring is 'Alts'.
He didn't delete XT threads on Bitcointalk, he moved them. And I've already expressed my opinion about Reddit.
And to finish off my post, here's a comic strip from xkcd.com:
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I think this particular post that was deleted was in fact my worst ever use of language around here 
