Josh Rehman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > As for being warned, I was told that because my discussion was about > ubuntu I should stop. Because I felt my discussion was not about > ubuntu, I did not feel that I should have to stop.
Then you needed to explain why, not just continue blindly and rail against authority on-channel. Rightly or wrongly, op's have authority and railing on-channel usually brings a ban. > > I don't particularly agree with the second ban, though. > > Glad to hear; it is roughly equivalent to a customer service person > hanging up on you when you ask to talk to their manager. Rubbish. The participants could not direct you to the "manager" on IRC and you continued after debian-project had been mentioned with vaguely menacing tone towards dondelelcaro. What were you going to do besides continue off-topic? > I'm still not really clear on why asking questions about Debian is > off-topic on #debian. [...] This was told to you a few times: "this is a technical support channel, mostly" and "distribution discussions are not a priori on-topic" > I've had experience with IRC in the distant past (1999?), and > egotistical users were a primary reason I don't use the service. I had > expected a debian channel to be different. Why? We have the usual mix of supporters. [...] > Telling a new user to "shut up" first thing is traditional troll > behavior [...] Opening by asking whether anyone is alive is traditional troll behaviour (is there anyone to annoy?), possibly second only to a/s/l. I don't know whether it still does, but the #debian topic used to warn against that and asking to whether to ask. -- MJ Ray - personal email, see http://mjr.towers.org.uk/email.html Work: http://www.ttllp.co.uk/ irc.oftc.net/slef Jabber/SIP ask -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]