Re: moderators, I would appreciate if you could interfere

[Weaver <weaver@riseup.net>]

On 20-08-2021 01:12, Steve McIntyre wrote:
> weaver@riseup.net wrote:
>>On 16-08-2021 11:29, lou wrote:
>>> Andrew, i thought you r moderator because you post monthly list guideline
>>>
>>> and you speak kindly with some authority when some list user deviate
>>
>>By reputation, the list is unmoderated, and that's the way it used to
>>be.
>>It still bears the token title of an unmoderated list but, in reality, a
>>small collective of the politically correct have placed it under their
>>auspices to moderate it. They have all the rationale, they believe, to
>>do so, but this is quite in contradiction with the principles of open
>>source, so it's an interesting phenomenon to observe.
> 
> For the avoidance of doubt...
> 
> The debian-user list may be listed as "not moderated", but that just
> means that posting is open by default. This mailing list, like all
> Debian-hosted mailing lists, is subject to both the Debian mailing
> list Code of Conduct and the main Debian Code of Conduct:
> 
> https://www.debian.org/MailingLists/#codeofconduct
> https://www.debian.org/code_of_conduct
> 
> As Andrew points out in his excellent and helpful regular posting:
> 
>   Inappropriate behaviour on the list may lead to warnings; repeated bad
>   behaviour may lead to temporary or permanent bans for offenders.

And who is it who determines what is `inappropriate'?

 
> If you're trying to label that as "politically correct" then I think
> you may need to change your expectations. The "principles of open
> source" do not include a free pass to be abusive to others.

And, who is being abusive?
Building strawmen to knock over does not qualify as cogent argument.
Cheers!

Harry.

-- 
`Unthinking respect for authority is 
the greatest enemy of truth'.
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