Hi misc@, The operator "blakkheim" just banned me on the project's IRC channel, out of a private passion or agenda rather than for any benefit of the channel.
I did something apparently-unapprioriate previously on the channel, which was to send a handful mass-highlights in October last year, and then two of them about three weeks ago. I contacted blakkheim separately to discuss the matter recently and he dismissed to communicate. Two other ops said they would not lift blakkheim's ban, and I have not gotten any response from the channel founder Han. Now that enough time passed, I made the effort to get into the channel and then clarify the issue by sending a clarification that I understand that blakkheim is easily irritated and that I will pay additional consideration to not highlight people as to not disturb blakkheim in particular, please see the clarification I sent, quoted at the bottom here in this email. blakkheim was not pleased apparently and instead banned me again, maybe because of the fact that I mentioned his nickname at all. In all cases I find his ban abusive. blakkheim's mandate to ban people from OpenBSD chat, is to protect the chat from influences that would be malign to the flow of the conversation or to the content of conversation. Since I am not in that zone, I find his behavior presently to be abusive and disrespectful, and this is emphasized by the fact that I am a (non-code) project contributor. While I totally see that a certain harshness of character is great for other things, I do not see blakkheim to be justified in his present conduct as a chat op. I have not tracked what he has done on the IRC channel previously, does he have a history of throwing people around? I would like to be reassured that the ban has been lifted and that I not will be at risk of being aggressed by blakkheim quieting or banning when participating in a normal way on the chat, so that I would need to go through hoops to enjoy normal project chat participation, which should be a normal given. Any clarification of lift of the ban by PM or otherwise will be much appreciated. I am not accustomed to being pushed by an IRC chat operator to be so aggressive that I need to invoke a lot of people and make public clarifications. This altogether leads me to ask what's wrong with blakkheim. Thanks, Tinker -- Message I sent on the channel: To finish a previous ban issue: Soo, I have at least transitorily changed my nickname, to circumvent the ban for mass-highlighting three people in two messages, that blakkheim attributed to me about three weeks ago, and then did not want to revert. I did a mass-highlight in October prior to that, and also annoyed blakkheim by being chattier than he likes, during 2016. I'll likely not irritate blakkheim by being chatty in the future, and I understand that he and others are severely irritated by highlighting more than two people, so I will generally not do that. I would have appreciated if blakkheim did not ban me and insist with keeping me banned, also with respect to the hardware and time donations I did to the project in 2016-2017, not super big but still making a difference, and also the contributions I am doing this year. Anyhow, so sorry for the highlights. I intend to not highlight again. Now please stop banning or quieting me, banning well-intended project contributors (albeit not in code) for non-offenses is not productive. And so now I hope that problem is out of this world, thanks. </issue>.
