TL;DR: We need to start denouncing and culling sociopathic behavior in the AUR and other parts of the Arch Linux community at large. The thread "Misuse of AUR (yaourt) comments" brings to light in the words of Dave Blair:
Det harassed me with out-of-date notifications too. He seems like a hustler. Not quite sure why anyone would want to hustle AUR packages, doesn't really make sense to me.
answering among previews emails in the conversation to what Ralf Maddorf said:
Reading Det's comments again, it's possible that I misunderstood those comments. However, maybe Skunnyk is sick of unflagging the package two times a day. I doubt that Skunnyk is "inactive", my guess is, that it makes no sense to unflag the package again and again.
To this I barged in and wrote:
No Ralf, you did not misunderstand Det. The guy is a Finnish sociopath hiding behind pseudonyms, that harasses people to grab their popular packages in AUR. I gave him the vuze package to shut him up. If you don't believe me check how many packages he maintains. In AUR3 he used to have more than 600.
AS an aside, William Di Luigi wrote:
These are ad-hominem attacks, I think this thread is being hijacked.
And I answered:
No, I am not hijacking the thread. I am simply confirming Dave Balir and Ralph Maddorf's suspicions that they are dealing with a sick individual.
And if you think I am throwing ad-hominem attacks is because you havenot receivied insulting emails from Det to your private mailbox. And, as I said, he uses pseudonyms to do his sociopathic deeds, for example nimetonmail@gmail.com that now nymshifted to nimetonmaili@gmail.com.
Just give me a moment and I'll open a new thread.
(Precisely this new thread) Now, in support to my assertions there are these answers: Ralph Maddorf:
In AUR 4 https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/?O=0&SeB=m&K=Det&outdated=&SB=n&SO=a&PP=50&do_Search=Go
Maintainer Det: 105 packages found. Submitter Det: 63 packages found.
Dave Blair:
I'm glad it's not just me then.
But why would anyone want to hustle AUR packages? I don't get it. There are loads of orphans around, and maintaining a package can be a pain. It's not like you can make a living off it.
Now, after this long summary there is but one matter: This kind of behavior has to be stopped in its tracks. I gave a fair fight, part of which David Reisner had news as seen in <https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/42481>, but that was just the start of it. The harassment made me give "Det" the vuze package in a fit of disgust and rage (my fault, I know). Now, what do I know about this "Det" character? He is Finnish, because one of the Gmail email addresses he used to harass and insult me had a Google+ page with all text in Finnish (very immature content, btw). I can't find that page anymore, probably he deleted it, there is also nimetonmaili@gmail.com, where he identifies as "Daniel Davis"; he had the gall of gloating it is not his real name. So we can have an idea of what kind of sociopath is this individual. I let this pass for a long time, but I think it is the right time to ask the TUs *and* the devs to start a productive discussion about creating a code of conduct that allows us, the users contributing to the AUR, the forum and the IRC channels, to have a set of rules to be applied if people is disrespect to each other in the context of the community. Case in point, a long while ago, I witnessed some of the IRC channel regulars harass a girl in such a way that I thought the main harasser should be asked if he had ever been kissed. And we wonder why there are no women involved in Arch Linux, at least that I be aware of. I am sure that like Bill and Ted, we all want to be excellent to each other, but unfortunately the times are such that most idolize being violent and abusive to each other. We can't stop the decay of our civilization but we certainly can try to stop it in the Arch community. -- Pedro A. López-Valencia http://about.me/palopezv/ Recession is when a neighbor loses his job. Depression is when you lose yours. -Ronald Reagan