Re: [gentoo-dev] Is anyone a prude?

["D. Wokan" <wokan@cox.net>]

Jason S wrote:

>--- Lina Pezzella <j4rg0n@gentoo.org> wrote:
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>>This thread brings up a very good point. There are
>>little children 
>>using our distribution, and they should not be
>>exposed to dirty words 
>>such as the one being disputed in this thread. There
>>are other packages 
>>that are also questionable too. "BitchX" comes to
>>mind, and "Evolution" 
>>is on the top of my die-package-die list. We
>>certainly wouldn't want 
>>little children asking about that, now would we?
>>
>>In light of the above, I suggest that in the
>>interest of being sure not 
>>to offend anyone, we remove the three aforementioned
>>packages and any 
>>others that might be offensive. It's not censorship,
>>it's decency.
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>Thanks for the mocking. :(
>
>Well maybe we should have a vote if my moderating
>services are no longer needed. I could find better
>things to do with my time quite frankly. I just took
>the job because it was policy and something I could do
>in the background, and I took the heat from other
>devs. It's boring and a thankless job. I even get
>threats to my life sometimes, nevermind them sharing
>their thoughts of what they think of me. ;)
>
>Maybe it's time to do something else. 
>
>regards,
>  kutsuya (aka bit`)
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I'm sure you do a great job of it, and even though I've never been 
there, I'd like to thank you for doing it.  Just be careful not to get 
into the rut of relying on too many automated processes for banning people.

Perhaps you need a bot that can feed you the full text of what a person 
says so you can review it for intent.  Kick an obvious "Fsck you" 
statement to the curb, but perhaps not come down on someone who says, "I 
made an ass of myself today when I screwed up the system config in front 
of the boss today."

It's got to be hard to keep an eye on everything in the room.  Some kind 
of syntax highlighting or the previously mentioned bot (if one such 
exists or could be created) might do wonders for your moderating sanity.

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