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On Fri, 2006-05-19 at 09:16 -0400, Chris Gianelloni wrote: |
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> On Fri, 2006-05-19 at 13:13 +0200, Wernfried Haas wrote: |
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> > > Basically, my point is that Gentoo problems belong on Gentoo ML's. But |
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> > > personal conflicts don't. If a dev doesn't follow that common sense approach, |
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> > > then mob rule will prevail. ;-) |
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> > Maybe i don't quite understand what you mean with mob rule, what |
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> > exactly would it do (e.g. in the example i mentioned above)? |
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> It wouldn't do anything. We have a nice, long list of "repeat |
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> offenders" that no matter how many times you tell them to be civil, they |
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> either can not, or more likely, will not, as they are aware that there |
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> are no consequences to their actions. |
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One possible consequence is that people get tired of the discussion and |
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quit responding. Presumably, as long as people are responding to each |
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other, they are interested in keeping the discussion going in the tone |
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they are using among themselves. |
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> Plain and simple, mob rule does not work if there are no "teeth" to |
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> actually enforce the rule. |
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Implicit in "mob rule", I think, is that it is self-regulating. If I am |
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misunderstanding, I ask Jason to clarify. |
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Regards, |
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Ferris |
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Ferris McCormick (P44646, MI) <fmccor@g.o> |
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Developer, Gentoo Linux (Devrel, Sparc) |