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Passive-aggressive and coercive maintainers will almost certainly abuse this power.

My uninformed guess is that enterprise users asked for this feature for their own repos and it was eventually cargo-culted into the OSS side.

More reason to use Gitlab, I suppose.

No passive-aggressive and coercive maintainers on Gitlab? Huh! a three-letter change will save your projects it seems :)

I think they meant that you can’t delete issues on Gitlab, not a comment on the quality of maintainers on Gitlab as opposed to Github.

It seems like you can actually delete issues on GL, but only project owners: https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/project/issues/deleting_issu...