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On Tue, 15 Dec 2020 11:20:06 +0000 |
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Sam James <sam@g.o> wrote: |
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> > On 15 Dec 2020, at 11:03, Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn |
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> > <chithanh@g.o> wrote: |
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> > David Seifert schrieb: |
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> >> On Sun, 2020-12-13 at 15:36 +0100, Thomas Deutschmann wrote: |
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> >>> Finally please also allow me to ask why 30+ days after all of this |
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> >>> started, nobody from forums team took yet any action, i.e. the post I |
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> >>> showed on Friday is still untouched. Have I missed an issued |
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> >>> warning/ban? |
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> > |
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> >> I think the forum mods agree with you: |
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> >> https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-8543599.html#8543599 |
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> >>> Of the random set I surveyed, I did not find any posts that, in my |
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> >>> opinion, rose to the level of a violation. |
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> > |
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> > "I will note that due to the volume of poorly explained reports, I |
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> > gave up before reading nearly all the reported posts, so some of the |
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> > reported posts may well deserve to be reported." |
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> > |
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> > Ok, so overloading the forum moderation with frivolous requests will |
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> > obviously lead to the legitimate requests getting inadequate attention. |
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> > I consider those who started digging in historical posts and mass |
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> > reporting them as acting in bad faith here. |
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> That isn’t what actually happened though. Soap and I both reported posts |
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> we individually found offensive on the first few pages of the forum. |
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> There was no effort to go back through 13+ years of archives and report |
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> any infringing material - that would be a huge waste of time on our part |
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> and the moderators. |
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> It’s a misrepresentation of two people who figured they’d better follow |
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> the formal process to see if _that_ changes anything. |
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While there might have been some good intentions there, the timing was |
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quite poor. |
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The voting for what will happen with Off the Wall was right around the |
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corner, though things had already been pretty much decided before that |
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point. |
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Indeed, I would say this wasn't a very good use of anyone's time |
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and/or energy. |
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