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Will Briggs <will@××××××××××××××××××.au> posted |
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4699D2A2.9010709@××××××××××××××××××.au, excerpted below, on Sun, 15 Jul |
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2007 17:54:10 +1000: |
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> At the moment gentoo-dev is a "one big noisy room" forum. This is seen |
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> as a "problem" |
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> Propose solutions have included: |
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> 1) The "Let's divide up the room" solution - (and so we have proposals |
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> for gentoo-politics, gentoo-flamewar and other more "specialised" fora) |
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> [snip 2] |
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> The first doesn't work because it's well nigh impossible to enforce what |
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> is on or off topic. |
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Not really. Basically, once we have -politics or whatever, if anyone |
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says it's OT for -dev, I don't see the point in arguing it further here, |
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just post there. I've seen it work. With a bit of cooperation, once one |
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respected regular (basically dev, for our purposes) says it goes to the |
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other list/group/room/whatever, none of the regulars reply any further. |
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The point is, once there's the other group/list to point to, it's not |
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worth fighting over any longer, so even if a regular believes it |
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actually /does/ belong in the "home" group/list, because there's another |
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list/group and to maintain the common peace, that's it, it goes to the |
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other list/group. Very very seldom is it actually worth breaking the |
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common peace and fighting over, and when there /is/ discussion, when |
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someone /does/ go beyond the norm, it's generally handled privately, |
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person-to-person, because the cost of breaking rank publicly is chaos, |
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which benefits no one of the regulars, only deliberate trolls. |
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I'd really really like to have a go at it, to see if we /can/ make it |
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work. I think we can, and /if/ we can, it's clearly a superior solution |
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to forced moderation or other "forced" measures. Peer pressure /can/ |
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work! |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman |
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