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Stuart Longland <redhatter@g.o> (Gentoo Foundation) wrote: |
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> How's this for an idea though... Rather than banning *people*... why |
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> not temporarily ban a thread? I know this is easily possible on forum |
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> threads -- mailing lists are more difficult, but if one could lock a |
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> thread for a day or so -- that might allow people to cool off before |
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> picking up the thread again. |
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Nice idea in general, yet people could harm a discussion even more as in they |
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get a tool to delay them as often as they'd like to. Even more would you |
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delay a discussion for a day that worked, except that one person felt like it |
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would be needed to inject a few drops of hostility by using abusive language. |
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> I think in such flamewars, it's *everyone* that needs to cool off, not |
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> just those who start them. |
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Of course everyone needs to cool off, but (hopefully) most of us can do this |
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themselves, meaning they learned to recognize that they are angry and add the |
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task of replying to there todo-list and do it later on during the day. |
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What I want to say is: To me it looks like to is a relatively small group of |
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people who do get abusive again and again, and after some time others can't |
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stand this anymore and fight back --> flame-war |
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By baning those who get abusive again and again, the problem should thus |
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vanish in mist. |
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On the other hand, if you lock a thread for one day because xyz got abusive |
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for the 3rd time this month, everyone is pissed because the discussion is |
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stopped, xyz is happy because it is something annoying, and xyz is not really |
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likely to stop that because he personally isnt punished, but everyone. |
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If you got a class to teach, and someone played a joke on you, it is likely to |
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work if you punish the whole class with an extra test or more homework, |
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because the majority of the class will dislike the one who did it. |
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The same would happen here, but xyz who was abusive again will not feel that |
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he himself is punished harder than anyone else, since he/she wont be beaten |
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during the break, speaking metaphorically... |
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Cheers, |
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Daniel |
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