>Primary channels do not expire with inactivity, though they can be claimed at any time by a representative of an on-topic project with the appropriate name. Topical channels expire after 60 days in which no user on the access list for the channel has joined it.
##hntop is a topical channel, since it begins with ##.
People are concerned that you don't have the community's best interests at heart. Your actions say you don't have the community's best interests at heart.
All this lawyering corpspeak means nothing when your actions don't back it up.
If you want to prove us wrong, walk the walk.
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Looking at the list of top10 channels[0], several of them have such notices in their topics. If this takeover was policy, can we assume you'll do the same to ##linux? Or is it a very selective policy only to be enforced when you have a personal interest or believe you can get away with it?
You and I have very, very different definitions of spam. I see a guidepost giving me direction.
the original creator of the channel gained trust by their userbase to not do untowards things with the feed, like filtering out certain things
then they moved their project elsewhere and left a redirect in the old location
now rasengan has deleted the redirect and pretends nothing has happened, and as for trustworthiness ... note how in the screenshot at the end of the article, humblebot is killed after posting a link to this submission here
Strikes me as sort of 'domain squatting'