[2016-01-25]Bitcoin-Core Team Asked To Denounce Censorship

[ukeden]

There is a thread on the top of the subreddit /r/btc that is asking the Bitcoin-core group to denounce the censorship that the moderator Theymos has been accused of. In fact, a pull request on Github is also asking for these same measures. The discussion about the moderator has continuously heated up this year because it seems — Theymos still removes conversation he doesn’t like and bans people who disagree with his point of view.


Theymos has been the moderator of /r/bitcoin for quite some time and also helps maintain  Bitcoin Wiki, Bitcointalk.org, Bitcoin.org, and Bitcoin.it. People have felt for a long time that the moderator has become somewhat of a dictator and has tried to control certain topics taking place on these forums. For instance, if a discussion about BitcoinXT took place on /r/bitcoin it would then be censored or removed entirely nearly every time.   

Just recently a person named Cobra another leader of Bitcoin.org had removed Coinbase from the organizations wallet recommendation list because the company chose to test BitcoinXT. Theymos had backed Cobras decision on this maneuver but changed his mind after some time. Users everywhere are sore at the fact this person has so much control over the conversation. Threads can be found dating back to the early days of Bitcoin of the significant power wielded by one individual moderator. With the latest attempt by community members to have core address the Theymos matter and attacks, a person on Github writes:

Since these things reflect very badly on the Core team, it would be good to have a public announcement, distancing the team from such attacks and discouraging those attacks since they are not helping anyone

https://news.bitcoin.com/bitcoin-core-team-asked-to-denounce-censorship/

[Minecache]

All this bickering and infighting is going to kill Bitcoin unless people really start to shake up.

[Kakmakr]

This has been blown out of portion for no reason. Any forum on the internet has rules and you are informed about this in advance. One of the rules on \r\Bitcoin on Reddit says specifically, NO Alt coin promotion will be tolerated. Until one of these forks replace Bitcoin, it is deemed to be a Alt coin.

We are free to join any other forum, where Alt coin talks are tolerated or to create our own forums for these discussion, like Roger Ver and those guys did. If XT or Classic or any other BIP proposal is correctly defined as a Alt coin, we would never know, because it is open for interpretation.

The fact of the matter is, the moderators of these platforms has decided that these discussions are Alt coin based, and should not be allowed on a platform that were meant for Bitcoin discussions.