Ha's idea is proven to be wrong

Ha's idea is proved to be wrong

Anyway, Disqus channel system, a cancer of Disqus will be gone in a month.
I appreciate the decision of this time, but it's rather too late.
Disqus is an entity very discreet, or delaying to do something new, for almost anything they do.
Channel feature as well, this is at first several channels where some Disqus members are always staying and modding.
They took time unless releasing this feature to every ordinary user.
I witnessed that releasing to everyone was what Daniel Ha is proposing and enforcing.

Matter of authority

Like Ryan man is telling this time, what matters to them most is TOS violation.
And the TOS violation came from the authority they granted to each channel owner.
Any obnoxious post can stay unless Disqus team removes it, while a channel owener sees it fit.
So it's a wrong decision that Ha thought it could work, in granting the authority to every user, any user.

Significant case

A typical case in this abuse of channel owner power was most singular in a most big channel, PRB.
It was a channel that some man who's obsessed with channel ranking was running, where he was always showing off how high his channel takes place in the ranking.
He never cared the negative effect his channel was making, as long as the channel could get the place of the ranking that made him pleased.
So he didn't refrain from collecting and luring more many posters by allowing them to post something obscene or aggressive or racist.
He refused to obey when Disqus team sent a correction order to the channel.
Then Disqus deleted the channel, but the man did not tell the fact to the players so soon, the fact he refused the order then the deletion took place.

It would have been different

I think the result would have been different if, if he took in the order and made sure of TOS in his channel by that time.
Perhaps channel feature would have been still after September.
That's where I think he's very much responsible of the entire channel future than he thinks himself of.
He could have had a plan and means, like asking Disqus to send some Disqus member to be a mod of PRB.
This is a best strategy to keep the channel still, in having the involvement of someone with Disqus team, he can avoid the worst scenario like channel deletion, and every TOS violation can be attributed to the laziness of the mod that Disqus sent.
Anyway, the man was not smart and preferring to insist on maintaining his own authority for the channel.
Hubris is the real enemy, and having someone close to you who doesn't always agree with you, is the best way to beat the hubris that may destroy you or something important to you.

Since then, they took half a year to let us give up on keeping the channel activity still.