Re: rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user
On 18-May-07, 15:41 (CDT), Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> wrote:
> Frans, Cord, Martin, Pascal,
>
> I'm writing the listmasters because reading debian-user has become
> nearly unbearable for me (one of the sadly few DDs who bothers to read
> our user lists) due to volume and offensiveness/repetativeness of
> offtopic posts there. I've in the past threatened to leave -user
> entirely, and I have in fact moved a lot of my attention to providing
> support on forums.debian.net[4], but I would prefer that Debian
> articulate a policy of not tolerating this kind of behavior.
>
> Out of 2861 posts to -user this May, 407 (one in seven) have been labeled
> OT.[1][2] Their content has included jems like these. Anyone who has spent a
> while on the internet can probably fill in the surrounding mega-threads[5]
> from these excerpts.
>
> [examples deleted]
Ban them all. None of that crap belongs on a Debian technical list. No
amount of technical input can compensate for the hostility and stupidity
that those kind of posts promote.
Steve
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Steve Greenland
The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating
system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take over the
world. -- seen on the net
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