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by centizen 3492 days ago
As mentioned by others in the thread, deleting it would just make it possible for someone to take it over the open it again. Setting the community to private not only solves the issue, but it allows them to bring it back in its current state at any time if they wish to in the future.
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What issue does it solve exactly? the users want to keep using it, only Brad and a couple others want to kill it.
The issue of investing time in a language which prefers to push a political agenda at the expense of alienating their community.