Re: rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user
On Sunday 20 May 2007, Miles Fidelman wrote:
> Andrei Popescu wrote:
> > On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 11:57:42AM +1000, Ben Finney wrote:
> >> Joey is, I believe, referring to a healthy level of off-topic
> >> discussions on *any* list, not to creating a specific area for
> >> "off-topic" messages. For the messages to be "social lubricant",
> >> they need to be *interspersed* with the on-topic discussions in a
> >> way that doesn't detract from the discussions.
> >>
> >> If the volume of messages in an off-topic thread is large enough
> >> that an entire separate list is being considered, the off-topic
> >> diversion is already beyond the level Joey describes as "social
> >> lubricant" and into the level of disruptive noise.
> >
> > So people who "know" each other for years on this list are
> > condemned to keep discussions (mostly) on-topic or leave the forum?
> > How is this benefic to the community?
>
> Especially when you take a look at the archives and notice that some
> of those protesting the most contribute very little technically,
> while those they complain about post very useful information - after
> looking through Roberto's posts, I conclude that anybody who
> killfiles him is simply an idiot (and that the person who recently
> said he was doing so - not naming any names - hasn't posted an answer
> to a substantive question in at least 3 months).
Said person has been trying to get a business back together after
dealing with a long illness and death of his Father.
Do you want to make any more judgements about me without knowing what is
going on in my life?
Hal
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