Quote from: synechist on December 02, 2014, 06:03:41 PM

We'll probably keep our presence on Bitcointalk limited to an announcements-only thread, and of course whatever unofficial discussions take place.

There are two core issues with keeping this thread open:
- it occupies an inordinate amount of our time to respond to/deal with/fend off trolls, shills, scammers, etc. and this takes away from development time.
- responding to FUD just propagates it. Therefore it's better that FUD doesn't come to exist in the first place.

I just use my ignore button. Seems to be working. Can we start there and just have them experience the good conversations without actually getting involved? They can continue to act like animals in a cage without getting in our way. If new folks come along, they will read back through and understand. Especially when things start popping. But slack does seem a lot better for real communication so you can just boot the agitators to the project.