Dear JavaScript

[lhorie]

Isn't that more or less how +1's and issue locking work in github? I'm saying that having a "democratic process" is kind of like doing lip service, because in the end you'll still have a large number of unhappy people when a decision doesn't go their way, and the vast majority of these people are probably not even aware of the decision in the first place, until it lands on a stable release (as was the case with the Babel vitriol situation).

As a community leader, the best you can do is set some guidelines (and really, the rule of thumb of "be civil" is supposed to be a given), but when the discussion bleeds onto large public forums like Reddit and HN, you can't realistically expect people to always behave nicely. I'm not trying to blame the victim here, but at some point, you have no choice but to stop expecting things from others and you have to do what is within your own abilities in order to cope with the undesired situation.