Sure the community was (and continues to be) gagged. If you shut off the mailing list, and only let through messages that say positive things then you have effectively gagged the community. That being said, though, the community is very used to this. Whenever any bug surfaces, or something new is disliked then Dieter shuts off the mailing list until people stop talking about it. It's the classic "it's my ball and I'm taking it home" situation.
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Sure the community was (and continues to be) gagged. If you shut off the mailing list, and only let through messages that say positive things then you have effectively gagged the community. That being said, though, the community is very used to this. Whenever any bug surfaces, or something new is disliked then Dieter shuts off the mailing list until people stop talking about it. It's the classic "it's my ball and I'm taking it home" situation.