On Tue, May 03, 2005 at 10:59:37PM +0400, Gadi Evron wrote:
Okay. Paul is an asshole. You got your point across. Now what? Did you prove him wrong? You going to such a personal level on-list makes you a **** (chose 4 letter word).
Why do I write this? Because if you can send such things to the list and waste bandwidth, so can I.
I guess some people find it difficult to respond on a technical level, so they rather go BOO.
Where are our brand new and shiny moderators?
Remember that part of the process of revamping the moderation after previous unfairness involves giving everyone a second shot. This means that a few legitimately certifi(ed|able) full-time kooks are going to get back onto the list along with the rest of the part-time kooks and wrongly persecuted. In order to make certain that the process is as fair and even-handed as possible, the moderators have to treat these kooks as though they had a clean slate. This means warnings are given, and the kooks are given a chance to step back into line. If they choose not to avail themselves of this opportunity, the warnings will run out and they will be moderated. The best thing that we can all collectively do to help de-kook the place is to give them the rope then sit back and let them hang themselves (if they so choose). This means refraining from making personal attacks of your own, or personal retorts even if provoked. You know they are idiots, I know they are idiots, clearly they haven't listened before when they have told to their face that they are idiots, so there is no need to call them idiots with every post. If you are going to correct technical misinformation that is fine, but personal attacks only give them grounds to argue that so-and-so did something back and that the process is unfair. If everyone would please make the effort to not respond to the blatant personal attacks, no matter how justified the response may be, it will help the process along. In the end this is the important part of not feeding the trolls. -- Richard A Steenbergen <ras@e-gerbil.net> http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC (7535 7F59 8204 ED1F CC1C 53AF 4C41 5ECA F8B1 2CBC)