Nice article Arne. While I hope there haven't been deliberate efforts to disrupt the project through the psyops mechanisms you describe, I do think we do a pretty good job of disrupting it ourselves sometimes.
The tone on this list frequently leaves a lot to be desired. I'm not blameless in this, although generally I try to only respond with negativity in response to negativity. We're not the only project <http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/07/linus-torvalds-defends-his-right-to-shame-linux-kernel-developers/> with this problem. Ian. On Tue, Nov 3, 2015 at 3:36 PM, Arne Babenhauserheide <arne_...@web.de> wrote: > Hi, > > Given the recent threads, I’d like to share some thoughts on working > together as community with a strong but covert adversary. > > There are lots of ways to disrupt work without leaving obvious traces, > but most of them can be disarmed with a simple tactic: > > Stay friendly, stick together, keep honest and greet every > newcomer as a potential ally. > > And call out disrupting behaviour early on: If someone insults new > folks or takes up huge amounts of discussion time by rehashing old > discussions instead of talking about the way forward - in a way which > actually leads to going forward - then say that this is your > impression. Still stay friendly: Most of the time that’s not > intentional. And people can be affected by outside influences like > someone attacking them in other channels, so it would be important to > help them recover and not to push them away because their behaviour > became toxic for some time (as long as the time investment for that is > not overarching). > > Overall it’s about keeping the community together despite the > knowledge that some of us might actually be aggressors or influenced > from the outside to disrupt our work. > > I wrote a bit more on that, including what got me to write it, in > > De-Orchestrating Freenet with the QUEEN program > What if Poul-Henning Kamp was right? > http://draketo.de/english/freenet/de-orchestrating-phk > > I hope you enjoyed reading the text, and I’m looking forward to keep > working with you. > > Best wishes, > Arne > > _______________________________________________ > Devl mailing list > Devl@freenetproject.org > https://emu.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl > _______________________________________________ Devl mailing list Devl@freenetproject.org https://emu.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl
