From: Dawid Weglinski <dawid.weglinski@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Mailing list moderation and community openness
Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2018 08:11:42 +0200 [thread overview]
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2018-03-27 18:39 GMT+02:00 Rich Freeman <rich0@gentoo.org>:
> On Tue, Mar 27, 2018 at 12:12 PM, Martin Vaeth <martin@mvath.de> wrote:
> > Rich Freeman <rich0@gentoo.org> wrote:
> >> On Tue, Mar 27, 2018 at 3:34 AM, Martin Vaeth <martin@mvath.de> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> It is about openness vs. isolation.
> >>
> >> I'm pretty sure most developers, myself included, want to welcome
> >> contributions.
> >
> > Closing of the mailing list does not sound like that.
> >
>
> Sure, but it is actually part of the motivation.
>
> Consider this scenario.
>
> Fred is a community member. Fred consistently harasses and trolls new
> contributors in private. New contributors end up leaving because of
> Fred.
> Fred gets booted out as a result. No mention is made of why Fred as
> booted out, because everything happened in private.
>
And how this work on forums? Do moderators have the ability to ban Fred
for his harrasments on private channels?
>
> Now a bunch of community members get upset about Fred being booted out
> without reason. Fred claims it is because he disagrees with the
> leadership on something. People start arguing endlessly about
> openness.
>
Very same efect you will get when Fred is whitelisted by a developer, and
kicked out when he starts acting inappriopriate. Please kindly show me the
difference.
>
> Ultimately the leaders just want Fred gone so that new contributors
> aren't getting driven away. They can't explain that because then they
> create potential civil liability for the project. The problem is that
> the debate goes on for over a year despite intervening elections and
> now this becomes the issue that is driving new contributors away.
>
Please explain. I can imagine a troll on some #gentoo-${ISO3166-1_alpha-2}
who
is banned by channel operator. Does this create potential civil liability
for the project?
>
> What solution would you propose for this problem? It isn't
> hypothetical at all - I can think of one case in Gentoo's past where
> this happened that I'm aware of, and I'd be shocked if it were the
> only one.
>
Saying as an ex-dev and community member by last 12 years - banning trolls
and explaining reasons to others is always better solution.
>
> > And anyway, you can be sure that the problem will appear again,
> > no matter how closed the list will be.
>
> Sure, but we can at least force the negative advertising of Gentoo to
> go elsewhere, rather than basically paying to run a negative PR
> campaign against ourselves.
>
> >> A lot of this comes down to considering that most people in these
> >> debates probably are well-intended.
> >
> > Taking away freedom is never justified by good intention.
>
> You might want to choose a BSD-based distro then. :)
>
> And what about the freedom to endlessly troll and harass you and
> others? Is this truly a freedom we want to stand for? How about the
> freedom to harass members of legally-protected classes (something that
> also has happened historically in the community)?
>
Trolls are trolls, and when banned/blacklisted by default THEN, they will
start
their trolling on private channels.
>
> Surely Gentoo's mission isn't to run completely unrestricated forums
> for discussion of anything and everything. Our main purpose here is
> to maintain a Linux distro, not provide a platform for anybody who has
> an opinion on anything. Free expression has to be balanced against
> the interests of people who want to actually contribute to the distro
> without being endlessly trolled and harassed.
>
> --
> Rich
>
>
--
Pozdrawiam
Dawid Węgliński
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Thread overview: 52+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-03-20 12:17 [gentoo-dev] Mailing list moderation and community openness Michael Palimaka
2018-03-20 12:22 ` Kristian Fiskerstrand
2018-03-20 12:26 ` Lars Wendler
2018-03-20 13:41 ` Gregory Woodbury
2018-03-20 16:09 ` [gentoo-project] " Rich Freeman
2018-03-20 15:28 ` Matthew Thode
2018-03-20 18:17 ` Kristian Fiskerstrand
2018-03-21 23:56 ` Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn
2018-03-22 0:24 ` Kristian Fiskerstrand
2018-03-21 5:36 ` Eray Aslan
2018-03-21 11:07 ` Rich Freeman
2018-03-21 14:44 ` Alec Warner
2018-03-21 16:31 ` Eray Aslan
2018-03-21 16:46 ` Alec Warner
2018-03-21 16:55 ` R0b0t1
2018-03-21 17:19 ` Rich Freeman
2018-03-21 23:44 ` Gregory Woodbury
2018-03-22 5:24 ` [gentoo-dev] " Duncan
2018-03-20 15:44 ` [gentoo-dev] " Alexander Berntsen
2018-03-20 16:03 ` William Hubbs
2018-03-20 23:54 ` Benda Xu
2018-03-21 0:08 ` Rich Freeman
2018-03-21 23:56 ` Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn
2018-03-22 0:33 ` Kristian Fiskerstrand
2018-03-22 0:37 ` M. J. Everitt
2018-03-22 6:31 ` Benda Xu
2018-03-22 8:30 ` Alexander Berntsen
2018-03-22 11:38 ` Rich Freeman
2018-03-22 12:07 ` Kristian Fiskerstrand
2018-03-27 1:19 ` kuzetsa
2018-03-27 1:26 ` Rich Freeman
2018-03-27 2:38 ` kuzetsa
2018-03-27 7:35 ` Rich Freeman
2018-03-27 7:34 ` [gentoo-dev] " Martin Vaeth
2018-03-27 12:55 ` Rich Freeman
2018-03-27 16:12 ` Martin Vaeth
2018-03-27 16:39 ` Rich Freeman
2018-03-28 2:21 ` M. J. Everitt
2018-03-28 2:55 ` R0b0t1
2018-03-28 4:41 ` Stephen Christie
2018-03-28 13:48 ` Michael Orlitzky
2018-03-28 11:03 ` Rich Freeman
2018-03-28 6:11 ` Dawid Weglinski [this message]
2018-03-28 6:33 ` Martin Vaeth
2018-03-28 11:21 ` Rich Freeman
2018-03-29 7:13 ` Martin Vaeth
2018-06-11 1:55 ` R0b0t1
2018-03-20 15:53 ` [gentoo-dev] " Pengcheng Xu
2018-03-21 2:22 ` Paweł Hajdan, Jr.
2018-03-21 23:56 ` Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn
2018-03-22 0:27 ` Kristian Fiskerstrand
2018-06-10 18:29 ` Tom Wijsman
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