On Mon, Jan 29, 2018 at 6:31 PM, <ti...@openmailbox.org> wrote: > Hi misc@, > > The operator "blakkheim" just banned me on the project's IRC channel, out of > a private passion or agenda rather than for any benefit of the channel. > > I did something apparently-unapprioriate previously on the channel, which was > to send a handful mass-highlights in October last year, and then two of them > about three weeks ago. > > I contacted blakkheim separately to discuss the matter recently and he > dismissed to communicate. Two other ops said they would not lift blakkheim's > ban, and I have not gotten any response from the channel founder Han. > > Now that enough time passed, I made the effort to get into the channel and > then clarify the issue by sending a clarification that I understand that > blakkheim is easily irritated and that I will pay additional consideration to > not highlight people as to not disturb blakkheim in particular, please see > the clarification I sent, quoted at the bottom here in this email. > > blakkheim was not pleased apparently and instead banned me again, maybe > because of the fact that I mentioned his nickname at all. In all cases I find > his ban abusive. > > blakkheim's mandate to ban people from OpenBSD chat, is to protect the chat > from influences that would be malign to the flow of the conversation or to > the content of conversation. > > Since I am not in that zone, I find his behavior presently to be abusive and > disrespectful, and this is emphasized by the fact that I am a (non-code) > project contributor. > > While I totally see that a certain harshness of character is great for other > things, I do not see blakkheim to be justified in his present conduct as a > chat op. > > I have not tracked what he has done on the IRC channel previously, does he > have a history of throwing people around? > > I would like to be reassured that the ban has been lifted and that I not will > be at risk of being aggressed by blakkheim quieting or banning when > participating in a normal way on the chat, so that I would need to go through > hoops to enjoy normal project chat participation, which should be a normal > given. > > Any clarification of lift of the ban by PM or otherwise will be much > appreciated. > > I am not accustomed to being pushed by an IRC chat operator to be so > aggressive that I need to invoke a lot of people and make public > clarifications. This altogether leads me to ask what's wrong with blakkheim. > > Thanks, > Tinker > > -- > > Message I sent on the channel: > > To finish a previous ban issue: > > Soo, I have at least transitorily changed my nickname, to circumvent the ban > for mass-highlighting three people in two messages, that blakkheim attributed > to me about three weeks ago, and then did not want to revert. > > I did a mass-highlight in October prior to that, and also annoyed blakkheim > by being chattier than he likes, during 2016. > > I'll likely not irritate blakkheim by being chatty in the future, and I > understand that he and others are severely irritated by highlighting more > than two people, so I will generally not do that. > > I would have appreciated if blakkheim did not ban me and insist with keeping > me banned, also with respect to the hardware and time donations I did to the > project in 2016-2017, not super big but still making a difference, and also > the contributions I am doing this year. > > Anyhow, so sorry for the highlights. I intend to not highlight again. > > Now please stop banning or quieting me, banning well-intended project > contributors (albeit not in code) for non-offenses is not productive. > > And so now I hope that problem is out of this world, thanks. > > </issue>.
So, you got banned from an IRC channel. Okay. I suggest you move on. -- :wq!
