On Tuesday 03 of August 2010, Henne Vogelsang wrote:
On 03.08.2010 12:08, Lubos Lunak wrote:
Ok, this may sound like I'm joking, but I'm actually right now serious about this. I would like to enforce that these KDE flamewars no longer take place on the opensuse@ mailing list. I was originally going to say something like "make them to be considered offtopic", but the reality is that a good deal of them is already against the netiquette (off-topic, aggressive,...), so the problem is just that we let them exist.
Yes. If threads are off-topic or flamewars they need to be dealt with.
I can moderate threads (i would need help with that) or close threads completely. Moderation is tedious and in this case IMHO not needed. Once a thread derailed into a flamewar there is no point in moderating it i think.
This is not so simple, the KDE threads often start reasonably and end up with one subthread staying on topic and reasonable and all other threads sprouting from it getting worse and worse. As I read all KDE threads anyway *sigh* I assume it wouldn't be much overhead for me to keep it under control without destroying also the useful part (I don't know how the mail admin interface works though). That is why I have offered I would help with the mailing list. Additionally, sometimes it's hard to say what is and what is not okay for opensuse@ - there may be a 100-post subthread where people discuss theoretical aspects of plamoids vs icons on the desktop, and while there's probably nothing technically wrong with that, I'd still prefer not to have those on opensuse@. That is why I suggested opensuse-kde-chat@ where people can discuss every single pixel generated by KDE to death if they wish, as long as they don't annoy other people who want to get something done. -- Lubos Lunak openSUSE Boosters team, KDE developer l.lunak@suse.cz , l.lunak@kde.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-boosters+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-boosters+help@opensuse.org