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On Tue, Dec 5, 2017 at 6:01 PM, Kristian Fiskerstrand <k_f@g.o> wrote: |
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> On 12/05/2017 11:41 PM, Kristian Fiskerstrand wrote: |
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>> On 12/05/2017 11:37 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: |
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>>> Honestly, I'm not really a big fan of even on-topic posts from people |
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>>> who have caused a lot of harm to others in private. I'm not sure |
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>>> which is the lesser evil but do we really want a community where we |
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>>> tolerate absolutely any kind of abuse of other members? |
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>> We do not, but that presumes actual abuse has been demonstrated. |
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>> "spamming the mailing list", where the posts are regarding Gentoo, isn't |
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>> automatically abuse because some people are uncomfortable about the |
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>> information being presented, or they disagree with it. |
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> This whole email thread is actually one of the examples of where split |
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> lists is a bad thing, the original message was cross-posted between |
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> gentoo-project and gentoo-dev with a reply-to for gentoo-dev. Resulting |
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> in split discussions across the lists. The overall discussion should've |
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> been in -project to begin with. |
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Certainly, though if our lists actually were moderated it would be a |
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non-issue because all the replies to the off-topic list would have |
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been deleted. |
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Mailing lists aren't great for moderation in general though, because |
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it is impossible to delete a post after it has been distributed. In a |
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forum something like this would be easily solved by just moving the |
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thread to the right place, deleting posts after the fact, and so on. |
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Rich |
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