I was pissed at first because Roger's hasty action was disruptive, and especially pissed because the snake who whispered in his ear (temporarily) got their way, but we can live with this. It will remain a free-for-all zone, quality may degrade because mods who did great job at clearing bots and trolls are now gone, but it's still good to have it as the free-for-all Bitcoin Colosseum.

Still, I will be posting on r/bitcoincash by default and cross-posting it here, I want to grow r/bitcoincash because we want more people to join BCH, and what do you think a newbie would think about BCH if the first landed direct inside the Colosseum?

Freedom of speech of 1 troublesome individual does not trump freedom of association of everyone who's had to deal with him. However, this sub is owned by Roger, and he has right to exercise his freedom of association to allow whatever he wants, even if it bothers other users. There are other squares owned by others with different ideas on moderation policy, and everyone can compete for active users.

This sub will still be valuable, for the purpose of checks and balances: if those other places should ever become censored (not the same as just being moderated), refugees can always find a place here.

Note that I joined BCH in 2020, I was a nobody who initially used only r/btc to do my activism about group tokens, which was unpopular at the time and got me in conflicts with the regulars. I believe I helped everyone understand why native tokens are important for BCH and help CashTokens get consensus, and this just helps illustrate importance of having open forums. I was relentless and went over the top at times but I was never censored, so the talk about censorship by the now former mods is FUD.

This is just to clear this nonsense about "muh old mods were cEnSoring FrEe SPeecH!". It was never the case. This was all about 1 individual, and if his ideas were so good and important for BCH then he could've made some alt account to try get the idea ahead if his main's reputation was so ruined he earned a ban.

On the Internet you can always learn from past mistakes and start again anew, unless your ego is tied to your account handle / realname so much that you MUST post under it