Swap "go quiet" with "be quiet" or "go quietly" and it absolutely is a threat. But that's not what happened, and they clarified it in the call.

Why would you consider the former threatening?

You need to take into consideration the fact that this person had already created a large amount of negative press around this API issue. This means that people at Reddit were already feeling defensive, so when someone said something very similar to a threat then it was more likely to be perceived as a threat.

The reason why this is so alien to so many people is because they refuse to have empathy for a CEO. Reddit is filled to the brim with populist rhetoric about eating the rich. CEOs are profit robots, they don’t have emotional states of mind, duh.

All of this makes complete sense.

I couldn’t care less what happens to Reddit but it sure is interesting to watch everyone get so bent out of shape about a fucking website!

Good point. I'm curious if there's a relationship between those who work-to-live/live-to-work and work remote/work in office, respectively.

That's a good question to an angle I hadn't considered. The in-office people are strict 8 to 5ers and none of us work from home that often - just the random voluntary thing when something is interesting. The remote workers work more hours to be certain. Most voluntarily with some of the tech people being roped in on weekends. The core in-office engineers have spent years insisting on strong work-life balance that sadly has not propagated to other teams as much.

Honestly, the community is the most off-putting part of the language. The hype makes it difficult to find quality content; all I find are strange comparisons to dissimilar languages and "I rewrote 'Thing' in Rust" posts.

You took the words right out of my mouth.

We are being asked to believe that the mere fact that "I rewrote 'Thing' in Rust" is somehow superior to everything else.