Comment by hardwaresofton

> I'm here to remind everyone of that post, and to point out that I'm not the only one doing this. There could be an entire "shadow ecosystem" of invite-only source repos being shared among friends who are responsible for those they invite, including possibly having whole "trees" pruned if they turn out to be troublesome.

This has crossed my mind before, I think it might be the only way to actually meaningfully stop rapid expansion/dilution of culture, which I think is roughly equivalent to what people mean when they say things get "toxic" or the community worsens (it's a bit of a stretch but you can rephrase toxic behavior as behavior that is not regarded as productive/acceptable by the original or some other culture).

Does anyone have any examples like this? An invite-only network that penalizes bad actors by revoking their membership along with everyone else they've invited?