On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 15:43, gajendra khanna <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi
>> Actually all other trolls and spammers on this must be kicked.. :P
> There is no doubt that trolls and spammers need a strict punishment.
> About the latter, there is no ambiguity. Keeping the list clean is important.
> As far as the former are concerned, I believe that action should be
> taken when warranted with consensus in case it is felt that the
> individual in question has consistently led to the creation of a
> negative environment and not responded to community members' refrains
> to fall in line with the expectations.
Its trolls after all who need the most coercion to go and troll a non
FOSS list ;-)
Seriously, trolling is accepted behavior within limits. Banning every
("seems-to-be") troll, is counter productive. Not everybody can form
the right phrases in questions. A few misunderstandings might result
in (wrongfully) banning.
>> LUG@IITD community is very large and known for its productivity. any
>> spammer/troll who try to over-smart here write one single mail and
>> DE-motivate 10+ members to participate in the list.
Such people would have been demotivated long ago by the
"un"friendliness of the *nix environment.
And a few trolls really shouldn't matter to someone who is willing to
experiment.
> mail. It would be an interesting exercise to know if there are any
> members who would be stopped by a trivial mail. In case they exist
> (which I doubt),
I strongly agree with this.
>> Please un-join the list if you cannot tolerate the VITO power of
>> moderators. We only use it against SPAMs.
> Veto power is essential for safeguarding the larger interest of a
> community to be used with extreme caution and discretion. Use of it
> indiscriminately or for every small thing gives a mis-impression of a
> dictatorship rather than that expected of a responsible community.
The aim is to be a "society/community" driven association. Banning
people, is like opposing brutal capitalism, but falling into the
darkness of dictatorships.
There are other lists, especially severely unmoderated ones (OpenCV
for eg), on which Though, some of the members even criticize, (without
replying) whenever a question/subject is meaningless, all the members
without any exception ignore all spammers and trolls (ee the "society"
drivenness), and I believe we are mature enough to know who-is-who on
this list, maybe one or two mistakes, by every member but definitely
not more. And even on the Gimp-src, there are no replies ever to
"Flame mails".
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