On 02/16/2013 03:23 PM, Joao Luis Meloni Assirati wrote:This conversation is unbelievable. Debian-user is supposedly a list wherevoluntary people answer simple practical questions of users. Are youreally going to enforce list members to watch such ego demonstrations andunfunny jokes?Well, Stable is coming, and this kind of conversations had happened for years. You can block them if you want it.
The discussion isn't completely OT, but it can happen that things become OT, then ask the people to move to http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic .
I'm subscribed to a moderated list, it started with the advantage that completely annoying discussions were banned, but now even short, useful requests and replies often are rejected. The advantage became a serious drawback.
Everybody getting excited by such a harmless and easy to filter discussion should join
https://mailman.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch-generaland ask some useful questions and give some useful answers. You'll be surprised what point of view moderators could have after a while.