Re: rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user

[Hal Vaughan <hal@thresholddigital.com>]

On Sunday 20 May 2007, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote:
> On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 03:58:37PM -0400, Hal Vaughan wrote:
> > On Sunday 20 May 2007, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote:
> > > It would be helpful if that code of conduct had its own page and
> > > be enumerated so that it could be referred to directly when we
> > > try to self-regulate.  Eg: "Yoh WhatsYourName, this topic, while
> > > interesting in a general sense, is rather OT.  Please take it off
> > > list, per the list code of conduct item 13 at
> > > http://www.debian.org/MailingLists/CodeOfConduct#13.";
> >
> > This is different and it's close to what I mentioned earlier and I
> > think may have been mentioned before.  It combines several
> > possibilities, but it, unfortunately, puts some more work on the
> > list moderators.
>
> I'm not suggesting list moderators.  We as the Debian-User community,
> if there's a clear policy document, can self-regulate and remind each
> other of the policy as needed.

I'd be okay with that, but just in a short sampling I've seen people 
that don't respond to other users.  How are such people handled?  Or 
maybe when they refuse to respond to the community as a whole, that's 
when the moderators would step in?  I don't know if moderator is the 
right term, but I know there are people who police this list, or who 
can.

Hal