The single most damaging thing to the bitcoin community in its history.

[rogerver]

From a fantastic post on /r/BTC:

Why do ppl like Voorhees and AA pretend like both sides are equally to blame in censorship and splitting of the community? (self.btc)
submitted an hour ago * by 8yo90
From Voorhees' recent "Mea Culpa" post:

It’s been a highly controversial issue, that has largely devolved into adolescent vilification by each side upon the other. It has poisoned the community, and like many issues in society, it’s gotten too convoluted to assign blame cleanly to one side or another. Many people are at fault, many have made mistakes. Nobody is looking in the mirror at their own missteps, but rather digging up every possible shred of evidence that the “other side” is evil.
AA has said similar things in the past, saying that /r/bitcoin has censorship and that everyone on /r/btc are mad, and that they are somehow the same.
This needs to be said: They are not the same. Please stop the moral equivalence.
I'm sure they both know what really happened. About a year ago, Gavin and Mike were making a case for bigger blocks, they had won over the majority of users on /r/bitcoin, small blockers freaked out, and theymos implemented an explicit censorship policy of those he disagreed with. It ended open discussion and all but destroyed the possibility of a civil, open, fair settlement of the issue. It was probably the single most damaging thing to the bitcoin community in its history.
Yes, people on /r/btc are upset! Yes, it's been easy to assume the worst motives of those who have unfairly abused their authority to "win" a debate via censorship (should we assume good motives for such a thing?). Yes, /r/btc generally downvotes the views of /r/bitcoin. But none of this is even close to as bad as what theymos and Core supporters have done to big blockists and the community. Trust has been broken clearly by the actions of the side of theymos and Core.
So why the unfair moral equivalence? The only explanation most people can come up with is that people like Voorhees and AA are scared of alienating small blockers and Core supporters out of self-interest. But the false moral equivalence just heaps further injustice on an already unjust situation, as well as helps to protect and justify the very thing they say they don't like, namely the unfair tactics of censorship.
Don't people realize that, as much as bitcoin is a technology, it's a community? And that theymos and Core have, through abusive tactics, done enormous damage to the community? Pretending like people getting mad about censorship is the same as the censorship only worsens divisions in the community and encourages more abuse.

[LiteCoinGuy]

theymos is at least part of the problem. time will change that.

[iFixBTCmemoryIssues]

theymos is at least part of the problem. time will change that.

Theymos is 0.025% of the problem, if that.

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CPA 101!