@christianp @ColinTheMathmo
While I understand that getting a lot of users join can be seen as an opportunity, it is known that are strongly affected when in a systems you have huge actors and small actors. This is ... ! ;)

I found the article by @quokka (on whose instance I have my other account) very convincing, and I am all with the scicomm.xyz decision to choose a approach (block proactively and, if none of the anticipated problems materialise within time, consider removing the block) rather than one (do nothing for now but take rapid action if-and-when something bad happens).

Does the fact that you have boosted this post from @Mastodon mean that mathstodon.xyz endorses this approach? Can you point me to a local discussion about this? Thanks.

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