Nikolay Nikolov via fpc-other said on Sat, 29 Apr 2023 09:40:03 +0300 >On 4/29/23 09:02, Steve Litt via fpc-other wrote:
>1.5) In 2020, Freenode's #fpc channel was being ruined by a troll, who >was flooding the channel with crap, offtopic links and misinformation >about Pascal and would hijack and steer every real Pascal discussion >to absurd topics, like, for example, whether the moon landings were >faked. It's not like offtopic discussion was banned, but he was >disrupting any regular and meaningful talk. It was horrible, I have >described it several times as a burning trash can. The FPC moderators >at the time didn't do anything, even though Joanna complained on the >forums: It's true. There are people who deliberately sow discord. They ruin formerly good communication venues, and they should be immediately kicked out of the venue. I once saw a flame war tear apart a wonderful Linux group: It was horrible. You have my word that on #fpc-alt and ##fpc-alt, I'll remove anyone who is just trying to start trouble for trouble's sake. I didn't put that in the topic yet, but when it becomes necessary, I will, and I'll also give the troublemaker a warning before banning him or her if the deliberate troublemaking continues. I've done this before, on a mailing list I controlled. It's amazing how few people you have to ban to have a civilized and productive venue. I banned three people, two of whom never knew they were banned. In the 19 year history of the GoLUG (Greater Orlando Linux User Group) I probably had to issue about 10 warnings, and once I put every single person under moderation to stop a rapidly developing flame war. It never happened again. Thanks, SteveT Steve Litt Autumn 2022 featured book: Thriving in Tough Times http://www.troubleshooters.com/bookstore/thrive.htm _______________________________________________ fpc-other maillist - fpc-other@lists.freepascal.org https://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-other
