From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1I9NGR-000839-6j for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 13 Jul 2007 15:41:03 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l6DFd0HO010787; Fri, 13 Jul 2007 15:39:00 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l6DFZ0o3004628 for ; Fri, 13 Jul 2007 15:35:01 GMT Received: from localhost (xray.science.oregonstate.edu [128.193.220.51]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 15F006459E; Fri, 13 Jul 2007 15:35:00 +0000 (UTC) Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2007 08:39:13 -0700 From: Donnie Berkholz To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Cc: seemant@gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] ML changes Message-ID: <20070713083913.4fea4f87@localhost> In-Reply-To: <1184310715.26227.29.camel@localhost> References: <46968E00.4070202@gentoo.org> <1184308886.9892.48.camel@tuxhugs> <1184310715.26227.29.camel@localhost> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 2.9.2 (GTK+ 2.10.12; powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="Sig_N1yKDRfXqvin9bqN0s=780p"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=PGP-SHA1 X-Archives-Salt: f22045b4-6287-4e53-a289-0991637ed97d X-Archives-Hash: cfea757ce4ec02a03b28d15bb78030c3 --Sig_N1yKDRfXqvin9bqN0s=780p Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, 13 Jul 2007 03:11:55 -0400 Seemant Kulleen wrote: > I've said for a while now (on this list, on my blogs) -- bad behaviour > happens on this list because we (as a community) allow it to happen. > If it's not encouraged and trolls are not fed, they die out. Part of > the thrill of someone raising a pointless argument and picking on > ridiculously petty details is the satisfaction gained from others > taking that stupidity seriously and wasting their (and everyone > else's) time with it. I just read an article about this [1]. To summarize, in a volunteer community, there needs to be more people enforcing the rules than people breaking them. A small group of proctors doesn't work -- we need everyone to join in to enforce our standards when someone violates them. Thanks, Donnie 1. http://sciam.com/article.cfm?articleID=3D788CF452-E7F2-99DF-3EBC599C3A9F1C6= F&chanID=3Dsa003 --Sig_N1yKDRfXqvin9bqN0s=780p Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGl5yhXVaO67S1rtsRAlvlAJ9AOtikQLmG6GDuYgsa00C5AG7tjwCeLB15 27rWcdKOvcFuukjZKrcziY4= =Iie3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_N1yKDRfXqvin9bqN0s=780p-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list