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I was thinking about the recent discussion re flames and firefighting on the |
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dev m-l. One thing that occurred to me, as a user who has been on one side |
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of those, is that it would have been better if I had never been able to |
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post more than two posts in a day. (I mean this for the technical dev m-l, |
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not project.) |
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That's plenty for me to say "I think that's out of order" and to answer a |
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response, but it also means I can't get too emotional if I get flamed by a |
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stressed-out dev. After all, since the proctors have gone, there's no one |
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to respond in anything like mail-list time in the (admittedly unlikely ;) |
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event that there is another flamewar on the dev list and more cogently |
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no-one to mute a troublesome user (in real time). A dev who is consistently |
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anti-social (especially out of the blue when they should just ignore the |
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thread) can be dealt with by devrel. (And have been in the past.) |
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If the user is making a valid point, surely others will post in support, and |
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in any event they can respond the next day. That would minimise the chance |
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that a user unused to the rough-and-tumble of dev behaviour would react in |
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a hostile manner, and can in no way be seen as censorship of the user |
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community, at least to my mind. |
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What do you think? |
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