Hi all, Personally, I think we don't need to have an active "moderator", but when poison starts seeping through just blacklist the email address/account. We can't assume everyone is guilty but when the guidelines of common decency are violated then we need to have a process. It is hardly censorship; personal, vindictive and downright discriminatory comments should not be tolerated on our mailing list if we don't want them (if they were actively welcomed, I don't think most of us would be here).
Obviously they could come back with another address/account but the average internet troll will probably be somewhat deterred by this, especially if they are voicing their bigotry because they had too much to drink or something (obviously they could be a bigot in real life, just not very vocal). If they are actually like this all the time, then a formal mailing list probably isn't their average abode, or particularly convenient. Likely they frequent reactionary online forums much more often. The troll is gone now, so problem solved? If I am correct, these are linked to a forum on the Google Groups website? I don't know if deleting the posts is the right form of action but I would think that one or two of them should probably go. They do reflect badly on the community to an extent. Just my view on the matter, D. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "qubes-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to qubes-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to qubes-users@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qubes-users/73BABAE0-62BE-478D-AEA4-92E2C0AAAC86%40posteo.net. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
