Good afternoon all, As you may have noticed, I've updated the monthly FAQ today. I've added a small amount around political/religious/other debate and also about not responding to trolls.
The political/religious/other debate addition is because I've noticed a couple of those over the last six months or so with people being politically contentious. That's probably fine in other contexts - it's probably not appropriate for a user-centred and Debian-centred list where the audience is worldwide and where nationalist or religious based politics may be irrelevant to a large part of the audience on the sidelines. Trolls and people stirring up old controversies may not need a new response. It *is* difficult to put down the keyboard and wait - but sometimes it's best to not respond for a day and see what responses are made on list, if any, rather than adding to an argument. Having written that, if you feel someone is being a troll or behaving badly or behaving inappropriately on the list *please* send a short note to [email protected] for the team to review it. Please don't wait, thinking that someone else will do it - if more than one of the list readers does so, then that gives more than one viewpoint for the Debian community team to consider. >From time to time, people suggest formal moderation of all Debian lists. >From experience, that's hard and time consuming and formal approval of all posts on this list would make it the list less timely and useful. If no-one has any objection to my posting the FAQ, then I plan to keep doing so. With best wishes to all, both the regular contributors to the list and also those reading later or finding posts in the archives. Andy Cater ([email protected]) :
