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(For sake of clarity - I currently don't have any XC, did have a few in the past, but rolled them into XMR.)
I'm not into closed source, but in the case of XC, not all of it is closed right? So, we can't even talk about the potentially beneficial aspects of it then, according to your new rule.
Perhaps, in certain situations (e.g. Spammers coming on here) Risto can do what he will, but exclusionary rules sound a bit dangerous to me, especially when what you are excluding is not clear (e.g. partial closed source.)
Now, on the other hand, I do see a bit of your point, in that why should we let others come here and promote their coin if they don't let us look at the code? Share is as share does.
Fair enough. Just sharing my worry...
IAS
I see your point too... maybe such a rule would be too strict, and we could miss interesting inputs on current developments.
This thread tends to be a heaven of nice discussions in an ocean of mainly greed-driven-promotions and scams (ie, the altcoin board). I probably tend to overreact when I see anything that looks like a shitcoin or even a technically fair attempt which is greed-driven...
The high-quality of this thread (I don't dare to say in absolute, but relatively to many others) is probably a benefit of self-moderation, even if it has its drawbacks. So I'm happy to leave the decision to Risto.