megane-kun@lemmy.worldtoReddit@lemmy.ml•Reminder: Reddit is gone. Your community *is* official. If you're a mod, you're just as good as a reddit mod.English
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1 year agoThis is my thought as well, it’s not so much as deferring as it is offering them an incentive to migrate. Having a “seal of approval” from the corresponding subreddit also helps in attracting more activity from those who are part of the migration and on the fence about contributing.
I’ve never started a community here, nor do I intend to, but if I were in that situation, I’d at least reach out to my counterpart subreddit.
And he deserves a long vacation after all the shit that has happened to him. I’d even understand if he’d go low profile from this point on.
The character assassination Steve Huffman unleashed on him would make a lesser man just want to disappear (online).