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On Thu, 2008-02-14 at 09:31 -0800, Donnie Berkholz wrote: |
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> On 12:36 Thu 14 Feb , Ferris McCormick wrote: |
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> > On Thu, 2008-02-14 at 02:13 -0800, Donnie Berkholz wrote: |
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> > > What I want to do is build a core culture of people who refuse to |
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> > > tolerate assholes. We can do this by getting together a small group |
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> > > who will reply to any gentoo-dev posts or #gentoo-dev comments by |
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> > > people who are being jerks, telling them that they're being a jerk |
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> > > and not replying to the substance of the jerk's post at all. Replies |
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> > > to the substance of a post would come separately or not at all. |
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> > > Having a group of people reply to hostile posters should begin |
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> > > rebuilding a culture that doesn't tolerate that type of action. |
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> > > |
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> > > People who are consistently jerks are incompetent developers and |
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> > > should be treated as such. |
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> > Nice idea and worth a try. I have one concern. Since we are talking |
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> > CoC here, I'd like to emphasise that "assholeness" should be |
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> > determined within the guidelines of the CoC. Not by some person's own |
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> > conception of "assholeness" --- I'd hate to see a flame war about just |
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> > who is being the asshole in any particular instance. |
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> You make a good point. The CoC [1] is subject to some level of |
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> interpretation, and I think that these two provisions pretty much |
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> provide for what I'm suggesting: |
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> Be courteous. Though respect is earned, it must start somewhere. |
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> Respect someones right for their own opinion and acknowledge that they |
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> do deserve a measure of politeness in your response. |
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> Respectfully disagree with or challenge other members. The operative |
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> word here is respectfully. |
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> One thought I've had is that once we get this small group of people, we |
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> could talk in an IRC channel about whether a particular instance |
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> qualifies before responding. |
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> Thanks, |
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> Donnie |
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> 1. http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/council/coc.xml |
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So in other words.. proctors all over again.. |
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Ned Ludd <solar@g.o> |
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