From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: =?UTF-8?B?QW5kcmVhcyBSw7ZobGVy?= Subject: Re: posting guide? Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2013 20:59:13 +0100 Message-ID: <5140DA91.3060903@easy-emacs.de> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:35084) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UFroe-0001w7-AP for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 13 Mar 2013 15:58:26 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UFrod-0002Sy-3Z for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 13 Mar 2013 15:58:24 -0400 Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de ([212.227.126.171]:61728) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UFroc-0002SQ-Qv for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 13 Mar 2013 15:58:23 -0400 In-Reply-To: List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org Am 13.03.2013 20:13, schrieb Jay Kerns: > The past few days have reminded me of something somebody famous > once said [1]. I can already see work being done to protect the > community for the future, yet I believe there is more we might do > to be even stronger. > > I understand and appreciate Bastien's stated position regarding > moderator controls [2], and in that particular case I think he > did the right thing. At the same time, I do not possess his > seemingly superhuman level of patience, temperance, and couth. > > Yes, I can add people to my SPAM filter (which I did, BTW), but > that action protects only *me*. It does not protect the > community. Further, my later blissful ignorance means I am > unavailable to respond to future threats, so malicious > individuals are left to run rampant and destroy everybody else > still hanging around. Of course, if *everybody* agrees to divert > to SPAM then we're all set. > > That's my point: I propose that we, as a community, come to some > sort of consensus as to what un/acceptable behavior is and an > accepted mechanism of response. One way to accomplish this is > with a posting guide. I have some thoughts about this: [ ... ] Hi Jay, if you permit my opinion as a kind of guest-reader for years: don't think it's needed. IMO it was an accident. Hopefully the person will recover and present it's excuses some weeks or month later. Expect org-mode users being decent people by virtue of these fine thing themselves. Really don't assume that might happen next years again. Best, Andreas