Greetings! Perhaps I was a bit too hasty and fell into the trap of judging this list's value to myself based largely on this thread. I had great hopes of gleaning useful information about the direction of OpenSuSE from it and so far I have only seen agenda items (good) and heated debates about things that are not about OpenSuSE. Even with my status as a new subscriber, I remember the first post asking for discussion about a code of conduct. I thought that it was a good idea, and respected the OpenSuSE board for opening up the topic to the community for input.. but the discussion seems to have wandered too close to the ridiculous.. filled with more energy than is worth spending on the topic.. which is why I offered my opinion that the thread should be killed soon. But, that isn't my call.. it's just my opinion. I'm going to take your suggestion and make that filter rule for this thread.. I hope ya'll work it out soon. Good luck. Bryen wrote:
On Wed, 2008-01-23 at 18:20 -0600, David Alston wrote:
Greetings!
Would the moderators (if there are any) *please* KILL THIS THREAD! it is embarrassing. I'm new to this email list, and a relatively new opensuse user. I agree that there should be some general codes of conduct.. but those should be set by the moderators.. and the people who don't like the codes of conduct or how they are being enforced and care enough about it they should be encouraged to start up their own email list.
Just so you know... this thread was proposed by an openSUSE Board Member, and one I consider quite respectable. The Board could have simply instituted a new Code of Conduct without any input from the community. But in the interest of community involvement, it was presented to the community on this list.
It is a valid discussion for the Project list. And as you have yourself stated, you are new to the list. The Board was seeking an equitable resolution to past transgressions, however various people perceive of them.
Since it is germane to the Project list, in my opinion, and thus not a needless thread, might I propose you simply create a filter to block out this thread specifically?
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