[typical182]

FWIW, people had started to post obscene ASCII drawings, were using various curse words, and there were many, many repetitive comments across the ~400 comments posted.

From what I understand of the conversation there, the core Go team said they were going to take some time to digest the feedback, including [0]:

> The goal here is a productive conversation that aims at better understanding of different positions. Many comments here have contributed to that, and I am grateful for them. To be extra clear, the people who have been discussing opt-in vs opt-out respectfully and with reasoned arguments are most welcome here and have been an important part of the signal, not the noise. Thank you to them in particular.

> Much of the moderation is being done by volunteer contributors working valiantly to keep the conversation on track, polite, useful, and non-repetitive. I appreciate their efforts.

> This discussion has in fact scaled somewhat beyond what GitHub discussions can reasonably manage (I just spent a while clicking every "load more" link on the page to make ^F work again), which is causing even more repetition, so I will probably lock the discussion at the end of the day and take some time to think about the feedback we've gathered so far.

[0] https://github.com/golang/go/discussions/58409#discussioncom...

[musicale]

> people had started to post obscene ASCII drawings, were using various curse words, and there were many, many repetitive comments across the ~400 comments posted

Sounds like an appropriate and commensurate response to this terrible idea.