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

[Felipe Contreras]

On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 4:42 PM, Tom Rand <tom at tomsbox.co.uk> wrote:

> look at the end of the day this is a place for archlinux support &
> discussions with dev's, this is why there are policies for this & other forms of
> communication with the dev's & users.
> it is not about free speach or whether this is authoritarian
> it is about what this place has become due to people forcing arguments which become
> flame & troll fest's & get further away from policies to the point where the dev's
> unsubscribe!

I'm sure Vladimir Putin would say cracking on dissent is not about
authoritarianism, but maintaining a level of civility (or whatever
excuse he comes up with).

The fact of the matter is that it's irrelevant what you say banning is
all about; it's still authoritarianism. You can argue about the
benefits of authoritarianism all day long, but it's still
authoritarianism.

> all i see here recently are rants on rants which really should be taken else where.

Ignore them. Again, that's what people do on LKML, and guess what: it works.

-- 
Felipe Contreras