[arch-general] Arch-general is becoming a mess !

[Sander Jansen]

On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 9:57 AM, Heiko Baums <lists at baums-on-web.de> wrote:
> Am Thu, 16 Aug 2012 14:22:58 +0200
> schrieb Thomas Bächler <thomas at archlinux.org>:
>
>> So you're saying that instead of fixing the problem, every user should
>> remove the offending posts.
>>
>> The problem here are a small handful of people who start flames and
>> spread FUD. Banning a handful of people from the list is an easier
>> solution IMO. I am generally against such measures, but it seems we
>> will have no choice.
>
> And how do you decide whom to ban? Just because his opinion differs
> from yours? No personal offend. But there are or have been quite a lot
> of people here - I would even say, most of the people who are currently
> screaming the loudest - who are calling other people troll, while being
> trolls themselves, and shout for banning those people just because
> those people have different opinions and they can't bear other opinions.
>
> If you want to ban one of them you should ban both of them.
>

It's not exactly rocket science. Other forums and mailing lists have
moderators and rules. You can even have a team of mods, if you don't
trust the one person to decide whether to (temporary) ban or not. Arch
has decided the forum needs mods... why shouldn't the mailing list?

Cheers,

Sander