Comment by NoodleIncident

Unofficial subreddits are hard to reason about. Within the context of reddit, they are still the most official place to talk about a thing they like. And even worse, those are the people likely to only interact with the "community" on reddit, forming an echochamber where they think the unofficial subreddit's opinion is some sort of majority.

In rust's case, it probably is worth diverting some of the existing manpower for moderating online discussion to reddit. I think that the harsher this moderation is, the less attractive the subreddit will be to the reddit-only echochamber, as an added bonus. But this is only possible because you already have people involved with online discussion on other sites. In most cases, if reddit or twitter keeps talking about you and keeps saying dumb stuff, you just have to ignore it. This is how r/competitiveoverwatch is treated; everyone knows that the stuff they say there doesn't matter, and that they don't represent more than a tiny fraction of the people watching the OWL matches. Even some of the people posting there know it. The players and casters still seem to read it, but for the most part just laugh about how dumb their opinions are.

In this case, I don't know why the maintainer took some redditor's comment so seriously, when they said that they should not write rust anymore. This is just a separate issue that anyone with "fame" has to deal with, ignoring critics who are idiots, nothing to do with reddit really.