Oh, and another idea is to have somewhat more real-time debates on IRC. Procedure could be fairly simple: it would still have a jury group overseeing it. Participants would get voice in turn, present their arguments and counter-arguments. If a participant repeatedly fails to answer opponent's arguments according to formal logic rules, he is denied further turns to speak.
Ilya A. Volynets-Evenbakh wrote: > Alex Tarkovsky wrote: > >> By trying to silence parties involved in a disagreement you only force their >> differences to manifest in less desirble ways. And when that happens, things >> tend to get really ugly and it inevitably reflects back on Gentoo. >> >> Also, brushing things over to private email and private blogs is not always >> the >> answer because the issues behind these disagreements often involve (and just >> as >> importantly, affect) more than 2 people. Just because Daniel Robbins might >> now >> be taking things over to his private blog doesn't mean you no longer have to >> deal with the issues he attempted to have a public discussion about. >> >> Gentoo should provide an official venue where developers (and ex-developers >> and >> users) can talk out their disagreements, and under a few plainly spelled-out >> and >> easily enforceable guidelines designed to keep the discourse somewhat civil. >> >> > That's an interesting idea. It would be nice to have a discussion ML, which > would have one simple rule enforced. Any discussion _must_ follow formal > logic rules. > > Ensuring that rule is followed could be done in a few different ways. > One example: > There would be a small group overseeing discussion, and, solely on the > basis of formal logic rules, would, for example, suspend a person for a day, > in case of violations. > > Of course, enforcement rules could be slightly more complex. i.e. > 2-hour ban for any ad-hominem attack. Two warnings for logic errors, > day ban for third one. Or something. These are details that need to > be worked out, tested, re-hashed, etc. > > This would result in a list that would force people to discuss the actual > issue (technical, or otherwise), as opposed to do doing all sorts of mud > flinging, and, due to temporary bans, would prevent any discussion > from deteriorating into flame fest. > > > -- Ilya A. Volynets-Evenbakh Total Knowledge. CTO http://www.total-knowledge.com -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
