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Re: [opensuse-project] Re: SOPA blackout - I don't think openSUSE ought to be making political statements.
- From: Basil Chupin <blchupin@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2012 17:11:21 +1100
- Message-id: <4F1A5709.3090400@iinet.net.au>
On 21/01/12 07:29, Guido Berhoerster wrote:
It is also a great pity that some persons' mailers cannot do the right thing and keep a thread going instead of creating totally new forked-threads with the same Subject.
I am trying to find who actually started this thread and to whom I replied by stating that Henne had posted in opensuse-announce what the Board had decided to do re SOPA, but what I am finding is that my search wrongly shows that Per started this thread.
Anyway.... Re your observations that the moderator should intervene and close the discussion is bit 'over the top'. This is a real issue - as you suggest above - and should be discussed and not suppressed.
However, I do agree that those who attack a player rather than the ball - that is, make ad hominem assaults, ought to have their privates, dangly things, cut off and hung at the entry gate to the village. And also those who keep using the term "bike shedding".
BC
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It's not Per's fault this thread has been hijacked ad infinitum
distracting from two main points, namely the argument that
opportunistic participation in political activism regarding
issues at best peripherally related to this project is out of
place and rather harmful and from questioning whether the boards
mandate actually covers such decisions.
This would be usually the point for list moderators to intervene
and close this topic, unfortunately it was exactly them who
brought this thread to a new low by starting ad-hominem attacks
and name calling which reflecting rather poorly on them and the
community and actually reinforces the above argument. Anyway,
EOT for me.
It is also a great pity that some persons' mailers cannot do the right thing and keep a thread going instead of creating totally new forked-threads with the same Subject.
I am trying to find who actually started this thread and to whom I replied by stating that Henne had posted in opensuse-announce what the Board had decided to do re SOPA, but what I am finding is that my search wrongly shows that Per started this thread.
Anyway.... Re your observations that the moderator should intervene and close the discussion is bit 'over the top'. This is a real issue - as you suggest above - and should be discussed and not suppressed.
However, I do agree that those who attack a player rather than the ball - that is, make ad hominem assaults, ought to have their privates, dangly things, cut off and hung at the entry gate to the village. And also those who keep using the term "bike shedding".
BC
--
No one new to power has ever disarmed his subjects; on the contrary, finding
them disarmed new rulers have always armed them.
Niccolo Machiavelli
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