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Nothing says that the [email protected] will be locked forever. They wrote a well thought out post, pinned it, and encouraged people to move to their new home. No one was strong armed. No one needs to go make new accounts. Everyone needs to take a breath.
Would you rather they had deleted the community and said nothing? Everyone is up and arms over something that was created DAYS ago.
It sets a dangerous precedent. What’s to stop someone from creating a community, then go to every other instance they can find and register on, create a community with the same name, lock it, and direct everyone to the instance they want?
Any community that sees no activity (comments, votes, post, etc) over a reasonable time period (90 days?) should be automatically deleted or all the mods are removed allowing for others to come in and take over the name space.
But that's not what happened. This wasn't a community made with the intention of directing people to a bigger one. It was an already existing one that wanted to merge with people it did not disagree with.
You're adding an additional bit (making communities that don't yet exist to redirect) to make it sound worse than it is. Merges have happened in communities long before this....
I have no issues with the 90 days in general. I just think this one instance is getting blown out of proportion. The post that was written made sense as to why they wanted to relocate. It didn't seem like a powertrip or of malicious intent. And honestly, it would be a far worse experience to delete the community with essentially no explanation.
Now if they decide to hoarde it forever, sure, thats a different story. And trying to redirect every possible community to a single is another issue entirely.
But I think in this case what the mods did makes perfect sense and in general a principle of 'if no activity from mods in X time then Y' also makes sense. Everyone is just a bit jumpy right now.