Re: [O] posting guide?

2013-03-14 Thread Rainer M Krug
Just a short comment: There is one incident caused by one user - this is an outlier in all statistical measures. I don't think it is reasonable to react with new rules - by discussing the issue caused by one user, we are playing by their rules! Ignore the one user but keep your eyes and ears

Re: [O] posting guide?

2013-03-14 Thread Carsten Dominik
On 13 mrt. 2013, at 22:07, Jay Kerns gjkerns...@gmail.com wrote: Dear Bastien, On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 4:33 PM, Bastien b...@altern.org wrote: Hi Jay, Well, I would not invest too much time on this, personally. No, you don't seem to be bothered at all; those attacks seem to wash

Re: [O] posting guide?

2013-03-14 Thread Memnon Anon
it seems to me that this is entirely superfluous. I have not seen a mailing lit with better behavior anywhere. We should not be distracted by a lone user. FWIW, +1

Re: [O] posting guide?

2013-03-14 Thread Bernt Hansen
Memnon Anon gegendosenflei...@googlemail.com writes: it seems to me that this is entirely superfluous. I have not seen a mailing lit with better behavior anywhere. We should not be distracted by a lone user. FWIW, +1 +2 :) Bernt

Re: [O] posting guide?

2013-03-14 Thread Jay Kerns
[snip] FWIW, +1 +2 :) Fair enough. I agree that time shouldn't be wasted on lone users, and that includes me: http://orgmode.org/w/?p=worg.git;a=commitdiff;h=933d17d268a1618d9244c12014403a05c05c5a25 Cheers, -- Jay

Re: [O] posting guide?

2013-03-14 Thread Jay Kerns
Reading my message again, it doesn't say what I wanted it to say, and it sounds in my head not in the way I wanted it to sound. Let me try again, with more words: That's totally fine by me, I meant it when I said OK if you don't want to do that, and I don't want a silly thing like a posting

Re: [O] posting guide?

2013-03-14 Thread Carsten Dominik
On 14.3.2013, at 20:53, Jay Kerns gjkerns...@gmail.com wrote: Reading my message again, it doesn't say what I wanted it to say, and it sounds in my head not in the way I wanted it to sound. Let me try again, with more words: That's totally fine by me, I meant it when I said OK if you

[O] posting guide?

2013-03-13 Thread Jay Kerns
The past few days have reminded me of something somebody famous once said [1]. I can already see work being done to protect the community for the future, yet I believe there is more we might do to be even stronger. I understand and appreciate Bastien's stated position regarding moderator controls

Re: [O] posting guide?

2013-03-13 Thread Ista Zahn
+1 On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 3:13 PM, Jay Kerns gjkerns...@gmail.com wrote: The past few days have reminded me of something somebody famous once said [1]. I can already see work being done to protect the community for the future, yet I believe there is more we might do to be even stronger. I

Re: [O] posting guide?

2013-03-13 Thread Andreas Röhler
Am 13.03.2013 20:13, schrieb Jay Kerns: The past few days have reminded me of something somebody famous once said [1]. I can already see work being done to protect the community for the future, yet I believe there is more we might do to be even stronger. I understand and appreciate Bastien's

Re: [O] posting guide?

2013-03-13 Thread Bastien
Hi Jay, Jay Kerns gjkerns...@gmail.com writes: I have a mental first draft of things that could go in one, but there's no point moving forward if there isn't a general feeling that this would be something good to do. Well, I would not invest too much time on this, personally. From

Re: [O] posting guide?

2013-03-13 Thread Jay Kerns
Dear Andreas, On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 3:59 PM, Andreas Röhler andreas.roeh...@easy-emacs.de wrote: Hi Jay, if you permit my opinion as a kind of guest-reader for years: don't think it's needed. IMO it was an accident. Hopefully the person will recover and present it's excuses some weeks

Re: [O] posting guide?

2013-03-13 Thread Jay Kerns
Dear Bastien, On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 4:33 PM, Bastien b...@altern.org wrote: Hi Jay, Well, I would not invest too much time on this, personally. No, you don't seem to be bothered at all; those attacks seem to wash off you like water off a duck's back, or scandals off of Bill Clinton's

Re: [O] posting guide?

2013-03-13 Thread François Pinard
Jay Kerns gjkerns...@gmail.com writes: As Org grows there will be additional newbies (hopefully hundreds!) and additional hostile individuals (hopefully epsilon). Those are the two categories targeted by this proposal. I sadly have to agree somehow. The Perl crowd, for example, was warm and

Re: [O] posting guide?

2013-03-13 Thread Thomas S. Dye
Aloha Jay, Jay Kerns gjkerns...@gmail.com writes: That's my point: I propose that we, as a community, come to some sort of consensus as to what un/acceptable behavior is and an accepted mechanism of response. One way to accomplish this is with a posting guide. I have some thoughts about

Re: [O] posting guide?

2013-03-13 Thread Jay Kerns
Dear Tom, Perfect - that's just what I'm looking for. And that's exactly what I'll do. Cheers, Jay On Mar 13, 2013 6:16 PM, Thomas S. Dye t...@tsdye.com wrote: Aloha Jay, Jay Kerns gjkerns...@gmail.com writes: That's my point: I propose that we, as a community, come to some sort of

Re: [O] posting guide?

2013-03-13 Thread Bastien
t...@tsdye.com (Thomas S. Dye) writes: It tries to stay away from prescription, and it deliberately avoids mentioning all the bad behaviors that can be found on mailing lists. Please feel free to edit so it suits! +1! -- Bastien

Re: [O] posting guide?

2013-03-13 Thread Bastien
Hi Jay, Jay Kerns gjkerns...@gmail.com writes: Please note that messages to the emacs-orgmode list are expected to be civil and focused toward our mutual interest of Org mode. /Ad hominem/ or other attacks of a personal nature will not be tolerated by the community. Any strenuous

Re: [O] posting guide?

2013-03-13 Thread James Harkins
Jay Kerns gjkernsysu at gmail.com writes: Yes, I can add people to my SPAM filter (which I did, BTW), but that action protects only *me*. It does not protect the community. It also doesn't protect digest readers such as myself. I was quite annoyed by Jambunathan's suggestion that individual

Re: [O] posting guide?

2013-03-13 Thread Robert Horn
Bastien writes: No objection of course, but it feels both formal and empty to me. I share Bastien's opinion. My experience with community building is that describing and rewarding exemplary behavior is much more useful than attempting to set strict rules of behavior. You need some basic

Re: [O] posting guide?

2013-03-13 Thread Thorsten Jolitz
Robert Horn rjh...@alum.mit.edu writes: It's much better for people trying be be like her, because everyone respects and honors her, rather than following some set of detailed rules. Her??? Who is she? Never met her on this list -- cheers, Thorsten

Re: [O] posting guide?

2013-03-13 Thread Jay Kerns
On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 8:34 PM, Robert Horn rjh...@alum.mit.edu wrote: I share Bastien's opinion. My experience with community building is that describing and rewarding exemplary behavior is much more useful than attempting to set strict rules of behavior. You need some basic rules, but

Re: [O] posting guide?

2013-03-13 Thread Bastien
Hi Jay, Jay Kerns gjkerns...@gmail.com writes: As promised, I added a sentence to that paragraph: Ad hominem comments are out of place and will not be tolerated by the community. If one of you feels this is inconsistent with Org's spirit, feel free to delete my change (it is a wiki, after