Sam, you are conflating the concerns. This is not ON/OFF logic, with a possibly more than one dimension of shading and positioning one (relatively extreme) case as the norm for how to interact, is not the way to deal with this. (analogy; "Person killed in traffic. Ban all cars.")
Niclas On Thu, Nov 17, 2016 at 9:46 AM, Sam Ruby <ru...@intertwingly.net> wrote: > On Wed, Nov 16, 2016 at 8:38 PM, Niclas Hedhman <nic...@hedhman.org> > wrote: > > > > 3. IGNORE IT > > > > You don't have to read what other people write, you don't have to > > internalize it and you may convince others to do the same. For 20 years, > > this was the number one defense against trolls and poisonous people. > > Strongly disagree. > > I want an ASF that grows communities. > > This is not to be accomplished by giving trolls and poisonous people > an unchecked playground to perform whatever mischief satisfies > whatever internal urge they have. And to tell the targets of this > individual to just ignore it. > > I provided a link previously describing an experience I had. I hope > that you can appreciate that "just ignore it" was not the right advice > for that situation. > > - Sam Ruby > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@community.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@community.apache.org > > -- Niclas Hedhman, Software Developer http://zest.apache.org - New Energy for Java
