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On Tue, Dec 15, 2020 at 3:11 AM 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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> > 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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> "I will note that due to the volume of poorly explained reports, I gave up |
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> before reading nearly all the reported posts, so some of the reported |
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> posts |
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> may well deserve to be reported." |
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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 would like to point out an analogy that also applies IRL. |
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Another forum I used to frequent banned people from using the report |
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function if they abused it, and people who breached various kinds of |
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subordinate bans from threads, topics, forums, etc were punished for ban |
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evasion with a formal ban from the entire forum, in some cases permanently. |
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Similarly, IRL it's usually a crime to file a false police report or to |
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make false statements to officials, and various bar associations and courts |
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can also brand attorneys as vexatious litigants. |
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So in general, it's not like frivolous requests go unpunished in other |
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contexts, and I think the same can apply to frivolous requests to forum |
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moderators. I'd also opine the same could apply in other contexts such as |
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to proctors, chanops, comrel, but that's for another context and scope. |
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Aside, I'd also like to observe that this topic has apparently proved quite |
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contentious and I'd opine that that itself is grounds to consider the |
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action at hand is not yet ripe for a decision by the council. |
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> I consider those who started digging in historical posts and mass |
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> reporting |
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> them as acting in bad faith here. |
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> Best regards, |
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> Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn |
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