No, this is ridiculous speculation, I had virtually no relationship with Theymos before becoming a mod (and still have little with him, and know little about him).

Until this point I didn't realize you were a mod as well. So it has everything to do with the fact that you don't support the implementation. This is you, personally, deciding that topics you don't agree with aren't on-topic. XT is on-topic and the push back from the community reflects that. Your personal opinions shouldn't be what determines which posts get removed. It should be about what follows the topic, and XT is an attempt to improve bitcoin, and is therefore on topic. Your original criteria was "if it promotes destabilization", and then you said

That's because I don't believe Gavin intends to destabilize.

So if the criteria is intent to destabilize, and by your mouth XT is not intended to destabilize, then posts regarding it should not be removed.

Destabilization is a side effect, not end goal.

So anything that threatens to destabilize bitcoin shouldn't be talked about in /r/bitcoin? Don't you think it's counter-intuitive not to discuss the threats to bitcoin?

Counterparty exists.

How the fuck is that an alt-coin? Do you not see how fucking ridiculous it is to claim that counterparty (a method for tracking bitcoins) is an alt? They use bitcoin tokens for Christ's sake.

They are as long as they aren't altcoins.

If you are USING THE BLOCKCHAIN, YOU ARE USING BITCOIN AND ARE NOT AN ALT-COIN.

Fucking A.

Many reasons, for example malware be very harmful despite utilizing the blockchain.

So we shouldn't discuss malware, either?

Is your goal to make this sub a direct circle-jerk/echo chamber? Because that's the effect you are having.

Any further questions can be asked in the sticky.

Fuck the sticky. Fuck you and fuck this sub.