On Sun, 27 Oct 2013, Boris Pek wrote: > Hi, > > > What do the rest of you think? > > +1 for publishing the facts of bans and their reasons in a public mailing > list. > Only with one correction which have been well described by Rhonda: > > >> - It provides a reference point for newcomers to the Debian community to > >> judge their actions by, to understand what kinds of things will get > >> them > >> banned from participation (although I expect few of the people who need > >> such guidance will actually take advantage of it...) > > > > People who goe by judging what action might get them banned are usually > > those who try to *abuse* the rules and avoid banning instead of those > > who would really like to go well with the community. Taking "advantage > > of it" already transports somehow a feeling of it might get abused. > > By the way, how many bans we are talking about? Just few digits for estimating > the scale of problem... For example, how many people (or email addresses) were > banned this year or last year? How many mailing lists were affected? Maybe ~2-3 bans a year. Banning is usually the last action I/we take and we only use it if we really have to.
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