2010-02-04 Hi Steve,
thank you for the reply. I appreciate that you taking this more seriously than normal newsgroups postings. In fact, for this complaint, the response you made is all i asked for. I have a lot things to say about the various political struggle that one sees everyday in just about every communication channels that are predominantly young male groups, of relatively few people, in online posting forums, ircs, online massive multiplayer games... as you may know, the quarrels, accusations, bans, happen every hour. But to be concrete and constructive, i would suggest that in freenode's python irc channel: • when a admin bans someone, the admin needs to tell the person the reason, and not in some rude way. (a single sentence will do.) • The list of ban'd person's names, the reason for banning, and the name of admin who ban'd them, should be public. (irc already provides means for this that allows admins to annotate in the ban list.) In particular, if you are going to ban someone by ip address, make sure the person's handle (or preferably real life name), be listed together with it. (again, this needs not elaborate. A single sentence will do, e.g. “repeatedly asking same question”, “continously raising controversial issues”, “refused to use paste bin when requested” will do. Again, be as precise in description as possible. For example, “ban'd for trolling”, “annoying others”, are not a meaningful reason.) • additionally, i would suggest that bans be temporary. The following period seems a good start: 5 min ban, 1 hour ban, 1 day ban, 1 week ban, 1 month ban. Each can be executed according to severity per the admin's judgement. There should be no permanent ban, unless it's machine generated commercial spam. Thank you. For anyone reading this thread and interested in my opinions, i have written many essays related to this and netiquette. Many of which detail other similar incidences that i personally experienced, such as freenode's irc ban in #emacs channel. If you are interested, they can be found on my website, search for “ban xah lee”. Xah ∑ http://xahlee.org/ ☄ On Feb 2, 2:23 pm, "Steve Holden, Chairman, PSF" <chair...@python.org> wrote: > Xah Lee wrote: > > This is a short complaint on admin abuse on #python irc channel on > > freenode.net. > > > Here's a log: > > > 2010-02-02 > > > (12:11:57 PM) The topic for #python is: NO LOL |http://pound-python.org/ > > | It's too early to use Python 3.x | Pasting > 3 lines? Pastebin: > >http://paste.pocoo.org/| Tutorial:http://docs.python.org/tut/| FAQ: > >http://effbot.org/pyfaq/| New Programmer? Readhttp://tinyurl.com/thinkcspy > > | #python.web #wsgi #python-fr #python.de #python-es #python.tw > > #python.pl #python-br #python-jp #python-nl #python-ir #python- > > offtopic > > (12:12:00 PM) _habnabit: pr100, I replaced it with str.startswith, > > actually. > > (12:12:01 PM) jarray52: Jarray > > (12:12:11 PM) _habnabit: jarray52, yes, you are. > > (12:12:16 PM) xahlee: is hash={} and hash.clean() identical? > > (12:12:18 PM) eggy_: OhnoesRaptor: getting sockets (and event loops > > etc) right is quite tricky > > (12:12:21 PM) OhnoesRaptor: I know how to do sockets right eggy, just > > wondering whats up with the python verison :D > > (12:12:24 PM) mode (+o dash) by ChanServ > > (12:12:30 PM) You have been kicked by dash: (No.) > > > --------------- > > > I have not been using irc for the past about 2 year. (possibly perhaps > > 2 times in i think #web channel) In particular, i have not been in in > > freenode.net's #python channel. I don't know who is dash. > > > Xah > > ∑http://xahlee.org/ > > > ☄ > > Frankly, Xah Lee, I find it ironic that you see fit to complain about > abuse of the IRC channel when you have apparently felt free to ignore > the many complaints about your behavior on this and other newsgroups > over many years. > > "As ye sew, so shall ye reap". I imagine that your reputation has > preceded you, and that dash (whom I *do* know) is simply looking to keep > a well-known nuisance from bothering the rest of the users on the channel. > > For the present my sympathies are all with him. The PSF will, however, > investigate this issue and I will report back to you off-list in due course. > > regards > Steve > -- > Steve Holden Chairman, Python Software Foundation > The Python Community Conference http://python.org/psf/ > PyCon 2010 Atlanta Feb 19-21 http://us.pycon.org/ > Watch PyCon on video now! http://pycon.blip.tv/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list