+1 I have always thought opensource community are like growing up(when i was a kid).. the older kids, who know and have been there, try to help the younger ones learn, or they beat the crap out of them.. or just hit delete. On 4/1/14, 12:30 PM, Mike Miller wrote: > My opinion is that the list is usually not too badly affected by the > occasional weird or offensive post. The thing that really messes us > up is the much larger number of posts about those posts. (That would > include this thread on moderation and, ironically, this message!) > > The more we *ignore* that kind of thing, the better off we are. > Another good plan is to write to the offending individual directly > without cc'ing to the list. That way he or she may receive many more > messages about the problematic posting and it won't clutter the list. > If you post to the list, then many people will feel like it's been > taken care of and they don't need to send a message. > > When a thread gets hijacked into a battle over netiquette or similar > non-Linux issues, we all lose. If one person says annoying things, I > can block that person or disregard him, but if 20 people send replies > to that person, then I see all their crap and it's harder to deal with > it. > > Mike > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list