On Sat, Dec 10, 2005 at 03:00:02AM -0800, Don Armstrong wrote: > On Sat, 10 Dec 2005, Michael Banck wrote: > > Looking at the log, your question was being addressed for 10 minutes > > before you were silenced (definetely more than "a word or two"), and > > dondelecaro gave you useful input as well. When the discussion > > seemed to drift away, you were advised to take it elsewhere, which > > you declined. You were also warned several times that you were being > > off-topic. > > Just to clarify for those following along at home, the first +q was > put in place for ten minutes as a time out to stop the off topic > discussion and ideally to get the participants to move to another > channel. (A +q silences the individual in question, while allowing > them to remain on the channel.)
Don't know whether you send the guy a private message, but perhaps a public message like "foo: You have been silenced for 10 minutes due to repeated off-topicness, despite warnings" or so would be alright, so they know it is not permanent and everybody knows what's going on. Michael -- Michael Banck Debian Developer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.advogato.org/person/mbanck/diary.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]